Steven Slaughter
@stevenslaughter.bsky.social
A/Prof. in IR. Interested in globalisation and global governance: the G20 | transnational activism | democratic theory | republicanism.
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By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
August 25, 2026 at 9:30 PM
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
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The Reflecting Pool
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For @rawstory.com
Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
For @rawstory.com
June 17, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The Reflecting Pool
Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
For @rawstory.com
Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
For @rawstory.com
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Last year, the Trump administration suddenly & massively slashed aid for global health & humanitarian assistance, an unprecedented & brutal act
In 2025, Americans spent more on Halloween candy than their own government did on life-saving humanitarian aid
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In 2025, Americans spent more on Halloween candy than their own government did on life-saving humanitarian aid
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June 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Last year, the Trump administration suddenly & massively slashed aid for global health & humanitarian assistance, an unprecedented & brutal act
In 2025, Americans spent more on Halloween candy than their own government did on life-saving humanitarian aid
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/stat...
In 2025, Americans spent more on Halloween candy than their own government did on life-saving humanitarian aid
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/stat...
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A world in which climate change proceeds unchecked because sovereign states refuse to accept the constraints of collective governance isn’t a world of successfully defended national sovereignties; it’s a world which destroys the conditions for any meaningful national sovereignty at all.
May 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
A world in which climate change proceeds unchecked because sovereign states refuse to accept the constraints of collective governance isn’t a world of successfully defended national sovereignties; it’s a world which destroys the conditions for any meaningful national sovereignty at all.
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In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.
NYT confirms — with new details:
Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona.
One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona.
One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.
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When someone is good at politics it really throws into relief how the poor judgment of the rest
April 17, 2026 at 5:58 AM
When someone is good at politics it really throws into relief how the poor judgment of the rest
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New online: @nilsgilman.bsky.social on how the “middle powers” can chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
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A New Non-Aligned Movement? - Dissent Magazine
The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
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March 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
New online: @nilsgilman.bsky.social on how the “middle powers” can chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
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dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Journal of International Political Theory now has a Bluesky account! Follow us and get updates on some of our great articles: @j-ipt.bsky.social
April 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Journal of International Political Theory now has a Bluesky account! Follow us and get updates on some of our great articles: @j-ipt.bsky.social
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“Habermas would seem an unlikely philosopher to cure anyone of their attraction to hard-right thinking.” — Matt McManus
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Jürgen Habermas Showed What Philosophy Could Be
The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of irrationality in all its forms. Taken seriously, his philosophy provides an indispe...
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March 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
“Habermas would seem an unlikely philosopher to cure anyone of their attraction to hard-right thinking.” — Matt McManus
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jacobin.com/2026/03/habe...
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“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
March 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Condolences to all my Australian IR colleagues who start their teaching terms tomorrow morning
February 28, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Condolences to all my Australian IR colleagues who start their teaching terms tomorrow morning
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🚨 New article w/ @shaharhameiri.bsky.social in @thirdworldq.bsky.social exploring how Indonesia & India use the G20 to purse 'polyalignment' to manage the threats from the Second Cold War. Part of a SI on polyalignment, coming soon. Article free to access 👇
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Global governance in the Second Cold War: the G20 and the political economy of polyalignment
This article examines how states in the Global South are responding to the challenges of the ‘Second Cold War’ (SCW) via global governance. Globalisation has enmeshed almost all states and societie...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:17 PM
🚨 New article w/ @shaharhameiri.bsky.social in @thirdworldq.bsky.social exploring how Indonesia & India use the G20 to purse 'polyalignment' to manage the threats from the Second Cold War. Part of a SI on polyalignment, coming soon. Article free to access 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In political philosophy, a central insight of (small-r) republicanism is that a kind master is still a master, and that relationship itself makes the subject unfree. Same with the ultrarich. Counting on them to put the interests of society before their own myopic interests is playing with fire.
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 AM
In political philosophy, a central insight of (small-r) republicanism is that a kind master is still a master, and that relationship itself makes the subject unfree. Same with the ultrarich. Counting on them to put the interests of society before their own myopic interests is playing with fire.
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Journalism literally dying in darkness
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Journalism literally dying in darkness
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By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
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So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
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110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075
The Wealth of Freedom: Radical Republican Political Economy
Abstract. What is an economy for? The republican tradition in political thought offers a compelling way of exploring this question. The economy is for the
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May 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075
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Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers
www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...
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Certainty and Strange Thoughts - The Ideas Letter
Zarakol reflects on the collapse of the post–Cold War liberal international order and contrasts today's disorientation with the bold, definitive visions offered by thinkers like Fukuyama, Huntington, ...
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May 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers
www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...
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Registration is open for a @isanet.bsky.social webinar on Theorizing Emotions in World Politics in memory of Emma Hutchison. 5 June 2025 14:00h GMT. Thanks to chair/participants: @aslifc.bsky.social
@freyberg-inan.bsky.social
Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
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Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: In Memory of Emma Hutchison: Theorizing Emotions in World Politics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Despite its centrality to world politics, emotions were rarely acknowledged as a significant point of engagement and theorization in the discipline of International Relations. That begin to change wit...
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April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Registration is open for a @isanet.bsky.social webinar on Theorizing Emotions in World Politics in memory of Emma Hutchison. 5 June 2025 14:00h GMT. Thanks to chair/participants: @aslifc.bsky.social
@freyberg-inan.bsky.social
Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@freyberg-inan.bsky.social
Zaynab El Bernoussi
Jessica Auchter
isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Our edited volume “How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond” has a Google Books page and will soon appear (in Open Access). You can see the first hundred pages here.
It’s a powerful argument for understanding authoritarianism/1
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It’s a powerful argument for understanding authoritarianism/1
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How Republics Die
Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from inte...
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April 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Our edited volume “How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond” has a Google Books page and will soon appear (in Open Access). You can see the first hundred pages here.
It’s a powerful argument for understanding authoritarianism/1
books.google.com.au/books?id=LRB...
It’s a powerful argument for understanding authoritarianism/1
books.google.com.au/books?id=LRB...
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It’s not elitist to accurately diagnose a problem. And people aren’t as stupid as some think
April 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s not elitist to accurately diagnose a problem. And people aren’t as stupid as some think
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