Europeans struggling to cope with the U.S. military's inflammatory interventions in Iran may realize the practical impact of this conflict could be more severe than it's political effect:
It could starve Ukraine of American-made weapons.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/dona...
arisc.org?p=12722 [call for papers] 'Celebrating 20 Years of ARISC: Approaches & Directions in the Study Of the South Caucasus', **virtual** conference 17-19 September 2026, deadline 31 March; broad thematic parameters, details in link.
Operation Epstein Fury.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXI... Full recording of an interview with the renowned Azerbaijani author Akram Aylisli by @tomdewaal.bsky.social and his literary translator Katherine E. Young. Aylisli shares his humanistic and anti-nationalist views, and other memories of a remarkable life.
#SummerSchool
Teaching or advising students in IR, diplomacy, global governance, or tech policy?
The Institute’s Summer Programme in Geneva graduateinstitute.ch/summer — offers a flexible format featuring lectures, workshops, visits to IOs & networking with practitioners & 3 ECTS earned per module.
www.agos.com.tr/tr/haber/old... My latest on the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process for @agosgazetesi.bsky.social
This should be obvious to everyone: if Europe backs down and lets the US take Greenland, the transatlantic relationship would no longer be an alliance. Europeans would become dominated American satellites without sovereignty just like EEuropeans were Soviet satellites in the Warsaw Pact years.
Imprisoned Azerbijani academic Bahruz Samadov has been transferred from Umbaki prison to the N11 facility and placed in solitary confinement. His grandmother says these new conditions have led him to again consider committing suicide.
🔗: oc-media.org/bahruz-samad...
Neue Ausgabe des Russian Analytical Digest:
Russia-Azerbaijan Relations: Diese Ausgabe widmet sich den angespannten Beziehungen zwischen Aserbaidschan und Russland nach dem Bruch im Jahr 2025.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
Dear friends, I have launched a website for @ulviyyaali.bsky.social where you will be able to read her letters from prison and relevant news about her case: ulviyyaali.com
Ursula von der Leyen can’t get too comfortable.
When she appears today before the European Parliament to defend her reputation (again), it’s known that even if her centrist opponents are keeping her in post, there’s always a next time.
1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.
EWIS 2026 local hosts. 1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. Serhun Al. Izmir University of Economics. Local Organizer. Umut Can Adisönmez. Izmir University of Economics. Programme Co-Chair.
📣 The call for workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 in Izmir is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
My new article is out now in @millennjournal.bsky.social !
Not the first paper I wrote during the PhD—but the first one to make it into the world 🌍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
📌 Can Azerbaijan really seek peace while it continues to repress its own people?
Opinion by Vafa Naghiyeva
oc-media.org/opinion-can-...
Message from @smdov.bsky.social:
"My trials were conducted very unfairly. No one was allowed into my hearings. They could not prove my guilt in any way.
I ask all honest people to share that I am innocent and that I was imprisoned for wanting peace and justice."
Italian media published an article about @ulviyyaali.bsky.social with my, @cesarebarberis.bsky.social and Ulviyya's mother's comments included.
altreconomia.it/il-silenzio-...
While the peace pledge between Azerbaijan and Armenia exists on paper, Azerbaijani activists and scholars argue that putting it into practice and undoing decades of institutionalised anti-Armenian sentiment is something different altogether.
oc-media.org/azerbaijans-...
Finally got the physical copy of my first book!
#DeFactoStates #Recognition #Diplomacy
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @fggaleiden.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
🅾️ Opinion: Azerbaijan should align its actions to its commitment to peace — free Bahruz Samadov now.
oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
oc-media.org/opinion-my-f... Gulnara Mehdiyeva hits the nail on the head: "If Armenia & Azerbaijan have initialled a text that condemns intolerance & racial hatred, then jailing a researcher whose work has been about refusing hatred is an error that must be corrected." Bahruz Samadov must be freed.
🅾️ OPINION: One year after OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov was arrested, Azerbaijani activist Gulnara Mehdiyeva argues that his release is necessary to make the new Azerbaijani state policy of peace believable.
➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...
Thrilled that my article on treason and political community is (finally) out with International Political Sociology!
academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
Really fascinating article, especially relevant for contemporary times!
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/08/us-i... My latest, on the Washington peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
International Theory abstract about emotional phenomena in international politics, discussing the role of affective ties, nationalism, and identity in global systems.
#OpenAccess from our new issue -
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling - cup.org/4iM0Wnw
- Todd H. Hall & Patrick James
Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
My first book, which discusses Sub-State Recognition, & co-authored with @gezimvisoka.bsky.social, is out now!
#DeFactoStates
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
So far, once while being held at the State Security Service and once in Temporary Detention Center, he attempted suicide, and both times someone saved him at the last moment. He said that on the third attempt he will kill himself and end his life.
