Joseph Leigh

I'm hugely honoured & grateful to receive the 2022 'Best Dissertation Award' from the European International Studies Association! Thank you @europeanisa. And thank you @LSEIRDept for all your support during the PhD.

Fred Halliday combined popular exposition with expertise and analytical reach that was articulated, initially, from a Marxist perspective. His work has left a lasting impact on studies of the Middle East and international relations. jacobin.com/2023/03/fred-h…

@le_bassett It wouldn't be xmas without you declaring some popular food item made of oil

These things are an invasive species. Literally balls of veg oil. Rank

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For @ForeignAffairs I wrote a preliminary assessment of economic sanctions on Russia so far. Many initial expectations were proven wrong. To paraphrase Moltke, no sanctions strategy extends with certainty beyond the first economic shock that it triggers. fam.ag/3Rdja3c

@giofabman @naomukoyama @HistoryIr @Dept_of_POLIS Thanks Giovanni - great to see you all! And thanks for a great year at POLIS.

@le_bassett 🔥🔥🔥

Increasingly clear to see that Starmerism is Blairism but without New Labour’s “modernising” agenda, which effectively means Starmer’s party is even more of a cynical void

Solidarity to ⁦@SamTarry⁩ This must be the first Labour MP to be removed from his frontbench position for joining a trade union picket line to support workers. labourlist.org/2022/07/sam-ta…

Care for a cup of New England anyone? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congrats @adrianrogstad — this is a great piece!

Congratulations to @jleigh for winning the Best Dissertation prize from the EISA, for his work on American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries @Dept_of_POLIS

This is top top quality work. Great choice from @europeanisa

Here's a link to the thesis in case anyone wants to spend the summer reading about global power politics:etheses.lse.ac.uk/4110/

A big public thanks also to my incredible supervisor, @GeorgeLawsonIR, who really made the thesis possible — and to @AyseZarakol & Justin Rosenberg for their stellar advice at the viva

I'm hugely honoured & grateful to receive the 2022 'Best Dissertation Award' from the European International Studies Association! Thank you @europeanisa. And thank you @LSEIRDept for all your support during the PhD.

@JacobKripp congratulations!!

Steve Cooper has 𝙩𝙬𝙤 important messages for his Nottingham Forest players in the dressing room 😅

@AyseZarakol @GeorgeLawsonIR A really great day — thanks for putting it together Ayşe!

Five years ago today, the Labour Party manifesto for the 2017 General Election was officially launched at Bradford University 🌹 Some had been so excited by it, they wanted people to have it early … but this 🧵 is the story of what happened next …