You might find this interview I had with Deepak Bhatt on the challenges that the tradition of non use of nuclear weapons is facing today interesting to watch! https://t.co/3oLeXikLja
1/ Yan Xuetong, #China’s most prominent IR scholar, has a new book out: Inflection of History.
In many ways, it is underwhelming: cautious forecasts, muted prescriptions, and language close to familiar official formulations.
2/ But that is also what makes it revealing. 🧵🧵
Sci-Hub just stepped into the AI game 🤖📚
They’ve launched Sci-Bot ..... a research-powered chatbot that scans real papers, cites sources and avoids hallucinations.
Basically, ChatGPT but backed directly by academic literature.
If this scales… it could change how we search science forever.
With Josep Borrell, former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission in Barcelona today. He is currently President of CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), which invited me to speak at their annual conference on War and Peace in the 21st Century. This year's theme was "Defending Europe without the United States? Gracious host, great audience, fun city.
This event explores the role of concepts as windows into world politics. Prominent concepts like the state, security, or war organise our reality, they guide thought and action.
🗓️ 02 April | 🕔 17:00 | 📍Strand Campus
🔗 Register here: https://t.co/BEXJw71LGs
Receiving the T.V. Paul Best Book Award from Prof Paul himself at the International Studies Association Convention in Columbus, Ohio, March 23, 2026 for Divergent Worlds: What the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Can Tell Us About the Future of International Order (Yale 2025), co-authored with Manieet Pardesi (who could not come to ISA but sent a gracious message that was read out). The book was co-winner of the award given by @GIRS_ISA annually. @research_sis@AU_SIS@tvpaul1@isanet@manjeetsp