#POLI1017 Update on recent events in the Russia-Ukraine war

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting on the interaction between narrative, identity, and geopolitics

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting as a way into ongoing discussions about the significance of Geo-Politics as a field and its importance for IR

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting intervention on ontological security (relevant to our week's on Social Constructivism and Identity), Great Power politics, and Japan over the late 19th and throughout most of the 20th century.

#POLI1017 An FT interview with President Zelensky with his perspective on the current course of the Russia-Ukraine war (you should be able to access FT articles using your UoN sign in details).

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Useful when thinking about the interaction between gender, conflict, and peace processes.

#POLI2049 Relevant to both last week's discussion of international orders and this week's discussion of whether the origins of IR have built Euro-centric assumptions into the discipline. (Also interesting for #POLI1017)

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Relevant to discussions on gender, identity construction and how these shape interactions betwen domestic politics, foreign policy, and international politics.

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting for thinking about the relationship between domestic politics and both intra-state and inter-state conflict.

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Relevant to thinking about Consctructivism, Identity, Social Psychology, and Political Violence. Suggests that traditional assumptions about the relationship between violence towards outgroups and ingroup identification may be faulty.

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 On state-centrism and conflict. Especially relevant for later when we are looking at Civil Wars, 'messy conflicts', hybrid wars and whether engaging with these is limited by state-centrism in our datasets.

#POLI2049 Interesting on how ways of visualising international politics, shape how we think, and potentially policy behaviour. Relevant to this week's conversations about the legacies of colonial ways of thinking in international politics Also interesting for #POLI1017

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 An interesting intervention arguing that fragmentation and non-state actors of varying kinds suggest international politics is reverting to a pre-modern form of international politics. Links to a number of themes of the modules, including the role of state-centric IR theories.