The official book launch of Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime is only one week away!
Join us at @qmulsse.bsky.social on 3 March 2026, from 17.15 onwards.
Register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
In lieu of more book spoilers in post form… here below an interview from the fantastic Keren Weitzberg for the @qmulsse.bsky.social
We talked about my book, its relevance for world politics today, key takeaways, and what’s next for me.
It’s a super short read, but it does have it all!
"Trump is a paradigmatic example. Think about how he renamed ‘Veterans Day’ to ‘Victory Day’; how he has claimed over and over again that he has ended numerous wars[...]"
Read the full interview with @palestrinomirko.bsky.social 👇
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⬇️ Discount on Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime! ⬇️
OUP has also made the Introduction available for free until the official book launch, on March 3 - academic.oup.com/book/60859
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The launch of Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime will be on 3 March 2026, 5.15pm @qmulsse.bsky.social
Chuffed to be joined by Aggie Hirst, Paul Higate, Kim Hutchings, @therealisthom.bsky.social, and @debbielisle.bsky.social.
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Thanks so much Chris!!
Today is (print!) publication day!
My book ‘Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime’ is finally out in the world as an actual object - author-posing picture to follow ASAP, stay tuned!
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⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.
In an expected, but timely, turn of events, with @europeanisa.bsky.social in full swing, my first book “Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield” has been now published digitally, with the EISA-OUP Series Voices in IR. Print version in December.
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Title page of article "Electoral Hope" in journal Political Studies.
I have a new article out at @polstudies.bsky.social. In "Electoral Hope", I make the case that supposedly irrational "wishful thinking" is actually a crucial part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies.
OA link: doi.org/10.1177/0032...
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“’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social
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I’ll write a complaint ASAP!! Thx so much Ale!!!
Thanks Taif!!
Thanks Nina!!!
🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:
Looking forward to welcoming Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) for a launch event on his exciting book "Ethnos of the Earth" (CUP) this week Thursday. Join us if you're in Oxford!
20 March, 4pm • Brasenose College, Lecture Room VII
With comments from Faridah Zaman & Musab Younis
In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening.
You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/8n0sh
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Read this as soon as you can!
8/8. For now, super thanks to Emanuele Sciandra, @mbarnfield.bsky.social Italo Brandimarte @tarsisbrito.bsky.social @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social Stefano Guzzini and Kim Hutchings. Thx also to participants to the 2024 @theorylab.bsky.social and @doingips.bsky.social ECR workshop at @qmul.ac.uk.
7/8. This might/might not be a prequel to a book on the making, temporalities, and sociologies of military victory which will be out in late 2025! Keep your eyes peeled for more on all things victory and time - esp. if you believe I might have, indeed, written a whole book on this.
6/8. But gardens also helped reinforce global social hierarchies along raced, classed, and gendered lines. We need to rethink victory, then, because by constraining the study of victory to fighting and diplomacy we fail to understand how war ends and with what social effects.
5/8. Attending to their relationship to time, however, I also demonstrate that victory gardens served to also mark the end of both wars. Indeed, they were one way in which governments successfully constructed clearly demarcated ‘wartime’ and ‘peacetime’.
4/8. Victory gardens were virtually everywhere during the World Wars. Governments from all over the world fostered wartime gardening to enlist civilians to the war effort (esp. women) and counter food scarcity.
3/8. Victory practices are both martial and peaceful, military and civilian, and always temporal in nature. Wartime gardening is a great example.
2/8. I argue that this understanding of victory is limited/misleading. A temporal marker, victory has little to do with warfighting and everything to do with what I call ‘victory practices’: parading, monuments, and other practices that convince audiences that a given war is over.
1/8. IR and War Studies - the two disciplines that are most concerned with the study of war - conceptualise victory as the outcome of conflict and the watershed moment between war and peace.
