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Apologies for the quite-possibly-unsubstantiated diatribe, perhaps I am over-reaching and tilting windmills; if I'm blatantly under-informed, mea culpa, and I'll pursue no further. I have watched the ForaTv interview, and as said found the States of Consent versus States of Terror typology...

What else are forums for? ;) Good luck with the review... Apropos of leaving things to the last minute, that echoes the Perma-retrofit situation, and human motivation generally (as always when a speaker makes generalities about 'human nature', assume it to be an semi-veiled expression of...

Recently mindblown by 'Greening the Desert'; xeriscape permaculture by Geoff Lawton (Clip). Besides providing me with a welcome nostalgia for Herberts Dune, is the only approach I've seen with positive implications for managing 'Peak Water' in drought-prone or desertified/desertifying regions...

Brave New War is godly stuff, (where else would you get analysis of Russia-Ukraine where someone outlines how Ukraine could feasibly drop Russia?) and seems to have aged well with recent developments. Most of it is on his blog in some form, but the book is ace. Looking forward to the new one...

Nope, I'm Irish, no need to apologise. Most of my IR came from Nalini Persram when she was in Trinity College Dublin, so I can't tell you much you don't know on US trends. My impression remains that Realist-derived and Institutionalism is as far as it tends to go pedagogically anyway, with the...

Interesting thread, I'll take you up on the invite to jump in. I'd regard performativity in IR as far less significant a factor than in finance; significantly more of a descriptive approach, and less 'coal-face' involvement. (baseless speculation alert) High-performing economics wonks move...