Tom Furse

Our 17th Annual Conference is taking place on September 5-6, 2025, at @ucl Main theme: "🇺🇸 foreign policy in the post-unipolar world" Keynote: Prof Christopher McKnight Nichols (Ohio State University) Organiser: @TomFurse Submit your abstract > bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

I reviewed the great Andrew Preston’s latest @Harvard_Press newrepublic.com/article/196173…

Looked through the new JFK files for @nacla nacla.org/modern-surveil…

We're accepting proposals for the 2025 JHI Graduate Student Symposium, “Between the Text and Material History," to be held October 4 on Zoom. Learn more here and submit a proposal by June 13: web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025/0…

The greatest dissertation of all-time.

Our 17th Annual Conference is taking place on September 5-6, 2025, at @ucl in London! Main theme: "🇺🇸 foreign policy in the post-unipolar world" Keynote: Prof Christopher McKnight Nichols (Ohio University) Organiser: @TomFurse Submit your abstract 👇🏿 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

Want to know why you are tired all the time? Read my new essay in the December issue of the JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY (spoiler alert: it's capitalism, which keeps figuring out new, ever more creative ways to free-ride off your labor). academic.oup.com/jah/article-ab…

Here's the latest entry into my antiwar/non-violence series at Foreign Exchanges/@fx_newsletter: "How was pacifism, as exemplified by French politician Marcel Déat, twisted into a defense of Nazism?" Continued thanks to @dwdavison for his excellent edits: foreignexchanges.news/p/the-collabor…

My review article on @lucatrenta and Hugh Wilford’s books on the CIA, and how the agency puts political theory in action tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thomas Furse, "Fighting Smart: Living Systems Theory in the US Army's Strategic Thought," Modern Intellectual History (2024) bit.ly/4gSdCsX

My new article on the Frankfurt School debate over totalitarian state capitalism under the Nazi regime (Neumann, Pollock, Adorno) titled "The Will to Chaos" just published in @HarvardHBS's Business History Review and is available in Open Access online here doi.org/10.1017/S00076…

My new article about the influence of living system theory and James Miller on the US army’s maneuver warfare cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Grateful to Derek Davison and Foreign Exchanges for letting me write a short monthly essay on "The Anti-War Political Tradition,"--the subject of my next book project: foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-war…

We welcome Tom Furse to our academic staff! Tom Furse joins the UCL Institute of the Americas in September 2024 as Lecturer (Teaching) in US Politics and Programme Director of our MA in United States Studies. ucl.ac.uk/americas/news/…

Registration is now open for the JHI Blog's sixth-annual Graduate Student Symposium — "The Uses and Abuses of History" — to be held via Zoom on Saturday, September 28. The program and registration link are available here: web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024/0…

‘The intellectual environment in Britain hasn’t changed much since the invasion of Iraq. Official enemies are inflated. Deviation from orthodox worship of American hegemony is treated as incomprehensible.’ @TomFStevenson, new on the blog: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/july…

@agnipoullikka @konvoss @SPagliari @MarinaCostaLobo @DrCGodziewski @Online_Andri Well done Agni!

So, this happened yesterday! I am incredibly grateful to everyone who supported me in this PhD journey. Especially my amazing supervisors @konvoss and @SPagliari, my insightful examiners @MarinaCostaLobo and @DrCGodziewski and the chair @Online_Andri 😊📚

Call for papers for the More-Than-Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Earthly Flourishing Conference to be held Mar 11-12, 2025 in New York City organized by the MOTH Project. Apply by Aug 31, 2024. mothrights.org/academic-confe…

Or Rosenboim @OrRosenboim has published a new blog on our website, examining the roles of family and food in rethinking world order. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/displa…

In this interview, Benjamin Diehl asks Stefanos Geroulanos about how seemingly innocuous concepts drawn from prehistory have been used for political ends, often with devastating results. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024/0…