Excellent short piece off the back of #Algeria’s AFCON match today focused on the net positive impact of Franco-Algerian migration on football: africasacountry.com/2025/12/thre...
📘 New book out: rethinking how diplomacy is learned
Diplomatic Training: Histories, Geographies, Politics brings together voices from across the world to examine how diplomatic training shapes international relations, and who it includes.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/diplomatic-t...
🚨 FIFA just awarded its newly created “Peace Prize” to U.S. President Donald Trump, without any criteria or transparency on the selection process – and against a backdrop of escalating attacks on human rights and civil freedoms in the U.S.
Learn more: sportandrightsalliance.org/world-cup-20...
Hello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
Israel recognises Somaliland as independent state, Netanyahu says
I’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4
Now there's some product placement I can get behind
Detractors make every attempt to ignore them, but the Kabyle self-determination movement demonstrates its enduring appeal - particularly in and through diaspora. Markers of nationhood - the flag, the anthem, the president - are part of an effective #diaspora #diplomacy
www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...
Happy Friday 😊 The new issue of Diplomatica (Brill) has been published - with a diverse forum of scholars responding to "Provincializing ‘New’ Diplomatic History: An Interdisciplinary Manifesto", published earlier this year. Chuffed to have been asked to participate!
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An excellent way to frame a debate of this kind! I’ve got my hands on the book, to read as I take my almost daily cross-border train… 🤓
