Excited to announce the formation of JNU IR Society, a student-led forum dedicated to deep discussion and exploration of IR themes in general and Indian IR in particular.
This thread 🧵 is about the basic concept and aims of this forum:
For the upcoming Sunday IR Session, we'd be discussing
@DrSJaishankar
's chapter "Krishna’s Choice-The Strategic Culture of a Rising Power" from his book 'The India Way.
11.12.22/ 3.00 PM
SIS 2, JNU.
We had a great time hosting Dr
@MohanCRaja
for a special, jam-packed session on India's place in the world & doing IR scholarship in India. Thanks to Dr Mohan and IR enthusiasts who turned up on a Sunday afternoon for discussion, a strong testimony to our shared passion for IR!🌻
Sunday IR Session
#7
at JNU's School of International Studies
We covered
@ShipingTang
's paper on the future of International Order(s) and a book review of John Mearsheimer's 'Why Leaders Lie'.
IR enthusiasts from all over Delhi joined us today for a very engaging discussion 🌻
It gives us immense pleasure to be hosting
@MohanCRaja
,this upcoming Sunday at SIS, for a candid chat. We extend the invitation to all fellow IR enthusiasts, to be a part of this much-anticipated session🌼
2nd April, 4:30 PM
SIS2,JNU
The
@jnu_ir
team today met Prof.
@Sri_Kondapalli
, Dean, School of International Studies, JNU. He appreciated the initiative and assured us of all administrative support.
Prof.
@Sri_Kondapalli
also formally launched our website. Check it out 👇🏽
We touched our
#25
sessions milestone today with a very special event - a candid conversation with Dr.
@vineet1232
on his work and beyond 🌸
One of the most existing discussions we have ever had, this event saw participation from IR enthusiasts all over Delhi.
Due to the exam season at SIS, we will be on a break this Sunday and have our next session on May 08, 2022.
In the meantime, enjoy these two portraits of Sagar, the resident dog-deity at School of International Studies, JNU 🐶🌟
Best wishes and good luck to everyone appearing for the UGC-NET exams tomorrow on behalf of JNU IR Society and Sagar, the resident dog-deity at School of International Studies, JNU 🐶✌️
A thoroughly engaging discussion diving into the core element of IR as a discipline. The session left us with fundamental questions on defining the dimensions of IR & its contribution to the world. Justin Rosenberg's paper 'IR in the prison of pol sci" was a rich attempt.
The festivities came a little early for the JNU IR Society as we got to host
@DrIanHall
. The enriching discussion and deliberation added new dimensions to the understanding of India's FP along with IR and Grand Strategy. Thank you
@DrIanHall
for your thorough support. 💐💫
This sunday we will host a first of its kind Student Symposium on 'IR Experience in India'.
Students from major Indian universities are coming to JNU for a collective student-centric reflection on possibilities, challenges and solutions in Indian IR 🌷
4/12/22
11:00 AM, SIS2
For the upcoming Sunday IR session, we'd be discussing
@amitabhmattoo
's paper titled 'How not to deal with a rising China: a perspective from south Asia'.
25.09.22/ 5 PM
SIS 2, JNU
We'll be hosting
@DrIanHall
on Tuesday, and will discuss all his writings, major IR themes and research. We extend an invitation to fellow IR enthusiasts to join us on the way.
Following are the details for the event 👇
We had an extremely engaging and provoking discussion on religion & human rights, based on the Cingranelli-Kalmick paper.
Our good boy's religious concerns, though, are limited to a ritualistic adherence to barking at random people and taking non-stop naps! 🍁
Started our journey, this very day one year back with only 6 participants! The trajectory of our growth has been indeed impressive!
We only have all the IR enthusiasts from young minds to seasoned scholars to thank for making this purely student-led initiative a huge success! 🌻
Today at JNU IR Society we discussed
@atulm01
's paper 'Perils of ideological maximalism'. A very polarising discussion (as all things ideology are) which turned out to be a great learning experience. Look out for our blog with discussion highlights to follow ⚡️
This Sunday we will be hosting Dr.
@vineet1232
, Lecturer at
@LeidenHum
, and alumni of SIS, JNU. In the
#CandidChat
we'll engage with his diverse work across the IR themes.
We cordially invite IR enthusiasts to this interactive session. 💫
Further details of the event👇
Sunday IR Session
#8
at JNU.
We covered Carol Cohn's critical paper on the technostrategic discourse of the nuclear strategic community, an IR-themed book review of Liu Cixin's 'Three Body Problem' by
@priyankchn
, and an article presentation by
@rahuljaybhay1
🌻🌻
We had a wonderful, houseful session on a festive weekend with a cricket match, featuring Dr.
@johnstanly
who delivered a masterclass on West Asia's geopolitics! 🪁🪴🍁
Sunday IR Session
#10
at SIS, JNU.
We covered
@NinaTannenwald
's paper on the Nuclear Taboo and how strong it is today, followed by a book review of David Lesch's 'Syria:The Fall of House of Assad'.
The
@jnu_ir
team met Prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University yesterday.
She appreciated our efforts to foster an inclusive intellectual community of young scholars interested in Indian IR, and assured us administrative support.
With our broad mandate of making IR in India more student-centric, we pulled off our most meaningful event today
The Symposium on 'IR Experience in India' exceeded our expectations in the range of possibilities reflected upon, experiences shared, and the solutions put forward 🔥
Another rewarding Sunday where we discussed
@VGokhale59
's timely paper dealing with the pertinent issue of China's policy towards India. The paper dived deep into the issue and put forth intellectually rich arguments.
Based on the Stephen Brooks and
@WCWohlforth
article in the
@ForeignAffairs
, we had a spirited discussion session on the nature of the polarity of the international system and the US-China competition. 🌻
A bright Sunday afternoon where we discussed
@masera_federico
's paper and debated the crucial nuances of state-sponsored terrorism, Taliban, and beyond.
An engaging session covering diverse perspectives.
@amitabhmattoo
's paper gave us an insight into how the Indian concept of Dharma can be used in the larger study of IR and global conflicts.
Sunday IR Session
#9
at SIS, JNU.
We covered John Ruggie's critical paper on the origin of modern territorial states & problematizing modernity in International Relations, and a book review of
@VGokhale59
's 'The Long Game' by
@naitikmuley
. 🌻🌻
We had a most wonderful session with the brilliant and passionate Dr
@atulm01
on South Asia, IR theories, career in academia and India's engagement with liberalism. We wish him the best in his endeavors and are also looking forward to future engagements with him. 🌸🍂🪻
This Sunday we will have a thematic discussion on "Indian Foreign Policy in Modi Era". We'll cover 2 readings- "Saffronizing Diplomacy by
@KiraHuju
" & "Populism & Foreign Policy by
@HannesPleagemann
and
@SDestradi
".
2.30 PM. 10/04/22.
We had our longest and probably the most thickly contested (but also most fun) discussion today on
@BeheraChadha
's article 'Re-imagining IR in India'.
We also welcomed new members today, with IR-enthusiasts from DU and Jamia joining us for an engaging session 🌸
We had a very special session today - no lectures, no presentations, just a free-flowing conversation with Dr.
@PaliwalAvi
on his work and beyond.
Look out for the summary of this discussion that we will be publishig soon (a lot of exciting stuff in there 🔥).
Sunday IR Session
#11
at SIS, JNU.
We did a thematic discussion on "Indian Foreign Policy in Modi Era" and covered 2 readings-
@Kirahuju
's paper on Saffronizing Diplomacy and
@HannesPleagemann
and
@Sdestradi
's paper on 'Populism& Foreign Policy.
An eventful Sunday went discussing
@hitomikoyamaIR
and Barry Buzan's paper that deals with Japan in Mainstream International Relations, followed by an IR-themed review of the movie 'Top Gun: Maverick.
Wrapped an exciting session that covered the nuances of Mahabharata in the larger realm of IR as elaborated by
@DrSJaishankar
in his book 'The India Way'.
We had a productive session discussing the theoretical nuances and the practical relevance of archival research, based on Joshua Shifrinson's paper and
@rahulsagar
's recent op-ed🌼
Sunday IR Session
#6
at JNU's School of International Studies.
We covered the Sameer Lalwani et al paper on defense ties as the major underlying driver of the Indo-Russia alignment and a book review of Richard Mill's 'The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia' by
@AbhiKhajuria_29
.
We had a stimulating conversation on A P Rana's domestic political culture based explanation of foreign policy in terms of the Brahmanical roots of the foreign policy of non-alignment, based on the
@vineet1232
paper.
Started September with Shifrinson & O’Rourke's paper discussing the Sphere of Influence and its feasibility. An extremely engaging session with diverse perspectives.
Today's rainy weather was as rewarding as the discussion of
@KalathmikaN
's paper studying the Indian Passport & its layers of caste and class, followed by a book discussion of
@rahulsagar
's "To Raise a Fallen People", and how unorthodox and appealing that book cover is.
This Sunday session proved to be a valuable and intellectually stimulating engagement discussing
@philipp_schulz1
and
@Anne_Kreft
paper on Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed
Conflict.🌻🌸
After a jolly break of a week, we are looking forward to discussing this Sunday, how intellectual historians have shaped and analyzed international politics based on the paper titled International Relations and Intellectual History by
@DrDuncanBell
🌻
5th Feb,3:00 p.m
SIS, JNU
Inaugurating a series of special discussions on area studies, today we covered
@InsaNolte
's 'The future of African Studies: What we can do to keep Africa at the heart of our Research' followed by a review of the movie 'Putin: The New Empire' by
@nazrultweets
🌻
Had an amazing Sunday discussion on
@rkrystalli
and
@philipp_schulz1
's 'Taking Love & Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence' followed by an IR themed review of the movie Gadar: Ek Prem Katha.
We had our 20th session today discussing 'Time, Temporality and Global Politics' by Alasdair McKay.
Incredibly enthused by the participation we have seen from SIS community and beyond, and excited for things to come 🔥🔥
In today's Sunday session we had an engaging discussion with SIS scholar
@sreekumaranand7
on his paper 'Feminism & Gandhi: Imagining Alternatives beyond Indian Nuclearism' published in
@IAJournal_CH
.
Chilly, rainy New Delhi evening provided an apt backdrop for the sobering discussion of reckoning with the Iraq War, based on the
@MaxBoot
introspective in
@ForeignAffairs
. 🌿
Due to the exam season at SIS, we will be on a break this Sunday and have our next session on August 28, 2022.
In the meantime, enjoy this portrait of Sagar, the resident dog-deity at the School of International Studies, JNU 🐶🌟
A very profound and engaging session discussing
@DrDuncanBell
's paper on International Relations and Intellectual History. Here's to another highly productive Sunday caucus for the society 🌻 😊
Had a thoroughly thought-provoking and engaging discussion revolving around Savarkar's organicist conception of IR and Hinduism covered extensively in
@atulm01
's paper.🌼
This Sunday we will be hosting Dr.
@PaliwalAvi
, Deputy Director
@SOAS_SAI
and the author of 'My Enemy's Enemy', for a special session engaging with his exciting work across a diversity of IR themes.
We invite IR scholars and enthusiasts to join us for this exciting session 🌟
We had a spirited conversation on the Indian state's preoccupation, or lack of it, with power maximisation, based on the
@RRajagopalanJNU
chapter in Grasping Greatness: Making India a Leading Power. 🌻
Had a thought-provoking discussion around Dharma and IR while covering
@GiorgioShani
and
@BeheraChadha
's paper "Provincialising International Relations through a
reading of dharma".
We're grateful to
@rahulsagar
for his thoughtful engagement on the Hindu nationalist mindset, the progressive princely states, the birth & death of Indian liberalism, the making of modern Indian identity, doing archival research & theorising leadership in IR. 🍀🌿🍃 🍂🍁
In our first session this year, we discussed
@NarangVipin
's paper 'Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation: How States Pursue the Bomb'.
In the mirror of JNU's holiday season, the increasing participation from freshers is quite encouraging ☀️
We had an exciting exchange of ideas on bridging the gap between the classical realist and constructivist theories of IR based on the seminal J Samuel Barkin paper.
Amidst the very interesting ongoing polarity debate, don't forget to check our blog covering the discussion on the Stephen Brooks and
@WCWohlforth
article in
@ForeignAffairs
on the myth of multipolarity. 🌻🌻
We held our session in a brand new summer-friendly ❄️ venue today thanks to
@aaj_jnu
.
It was an amazing discussion on
@daveckang
&
@ma_xinru
's 'Power Transitions: Thucydides Didn't live in East Asia' followed by an IR-themed review of the classic movie 'Dr. Strangelove'.
An enriching session on lessons from one year of the war in Ukraine, covering a range of issue areas and reflecting a variety of perspectives. We will soon be publishing the blog covering salient arguments for the benefit of those who couldn't make it to the session. 🌻
Had an excellent session with
@amitjulka
. Covering his major works and diving into constructivism at all levels. The discussion helped us gain great clarity on a range of IR perspectives and locate broad themes like 'identity' and 'narratives' into the larger discourse.
JNU IR Society members yesterday attended a spirited and informative panel discussion on India in the Indo-Pacific, featuring
@MohanCRaja
,
@AiyarYamini
, Sugata Bose, and Swagato Ganguly.
Our discussion on India's G20 presidency dealt with the relevance of the multilateral grouping, democratisation of India's diplomacy, and the impact of geopolitical trends on international politics. We're also excited to welcome the new MA batch & seek to learn with them!🪻🌸🍂
This upcoming Sunday we are organizing a special session to reflect and deliberate on the 1year marking of the Russia-Ukraine War and the lesson it carries for India and the world at large. Hope to find you all there🌻
Join us for an engaging session this Sunday 🌻
We will be discussing Carol Cohn's paper 'Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals' followed by a IR-themed book review of Liu Cixin's sci-fi trilogy 'The Three-Body Problem'.
CSLG Lawns, 2:30 PM IST. 20/03/22.
Wrapped up Session
#21
where we discussed Mearsheimer's interview covering International Relations, followed by IR based review of the movie Parmanu & exploring why 'Buddha is Smiling' like us all in this picture! 🌿
For the next Sunday's IR session, we'll discuss
@KalathmikaN
's paper "The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, Class, & the afterlives of indenture in Indian Diplomacy" along with a book review of
@rahulsagar
's "To Raise a Fallen People.
24.07.22/ 5 PM
SIS, JNU.
Of the article suggestions we received, we will be taking up
@NinaTannenwald
's 'How Strong Is the Nuclear Taboo Today?' for discussion this Sunday.
This will be followed by a book review of David W. Lesch's book 'Syria: The Fall of The House of Assad'.
2:30 PM. 03/04/22.
Getting ready for an exciting Sunday afternoon 🔥
We will be discussing Prof.
@ShipingTang
's paper on 'The Future of International Order(s)', and the book 'Why Leaders Lie' by Prof. John Mearsheimer at the
@jnu_ir
gathering this week.
CSLG Lawns, 2:30 PM IST. 13/03/22.
Announcement:
In true G20 style, we are planning a roundtable of 20 including IR scholars, young professionals who were part of G20 India process, and IR practitioners who engaged with G20 themes, on Sep 24.
Please DM or mail if interested.
RT for reach and good karma 🌷
India's successful G20 Presidency offers many insights on contemporary international relations.
We will soon have a special session dedicated to discussing what G20 India means for India and the world.
Inviting all IR enthusiasts to be a part of this 🌷
Wrapped up today's session with an interesting and refreshing discussion on
@DrIanHall
's paper dealing with India's Normative Power and the Modi Era. It brought great dimensions of IR and norm-making along with India's role as a vishwaguru.
Went down the 'Memory' lane while exploring 'Collective Memory' as a component in South Korea-Japan relations in
@eunajo_
's paper on our 27th session.
Much love for constructivism today ❤️
We discussed Ted Hopf's 'The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory' followed by a review of
@RushDoshi
's brilliant book 'The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order'.
For the upcoming Sunday IR cafe session, we'd discuss
@VGokhale59
's paper "A Historical Evaluation of
China’s India Policy:
Lessons for India-China Relations".
18.12.22/3 PM
SIS 2, JNU.
Another amazing session, battling the chilly winds of Delhi, discussing the nuances of Quad's balancing and bandwagoning strategies authored by our very own
@Adarsh_Badri
🌻
Also, its not everyday that we get to have the author amongst us.Made the session all the more special🙈
Delhi heat is getting intense and so are our Sunday activities 🌻🌻
Today we covered
@hnizamani
's paper 'Our Regions Their Theories' followed by a review of
@b_judah
's book 'Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin' by
@radhey_wadhwa
.
Back in the lap of nature with an extremely amazing session. We covered
@ProfSaunders
's paper that discussed the role of elites in making foreign policy. Great insights and an interesting perspective to understand the nuances of foreign policy.
The core team, past & current, celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the Society today.
We remain committed to building an intellectual community of young 🇮🇳 IR scholars, are grateful to senior scholars for overwhelming support, & acknowledge the active participation of members. 🍁
"This Sunday we will be taking up
@DrIanHall
's paper 'Narendra Modi and
India’s normative power'
ahead of our
#CandidChat
session with him on Tuesday.
16.10.22/ 5PM
SIS 2, JNU.
Despite the downpour 🌧️ in the middle of the session, we had a thoroughly engaging discussion anchored in
@Mukherjee_Anit
's paper on Civil-Military relations in India. 🌻
This Sunday we'll discuss
@rkrystalli
and
@philipp_schulz1
's 'Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence'. Followed by an IR-themed review of the movie 'Ghadar: Ek Prem Katha'. See you there 🌿
5.00pm. 24/04/22
For this Sunday's session, we will discuss
@atulm01
's thought-provoking paper titled- "Perils of ideological maximalism".
This paper is part of the book 'Facets of India’s Security
Essays for
@theUdayB
' edited by
@kumaraswamyJNU
19/06/22. 5:00 PM
For the upcoming Sunday IR session, we'd discuss
@ProfSaunders
's paper "Elites in the Making and
Breaking of Foreign Policy."
30.10.22/ 2.30PM
SIS 2, JNU.
Today we hosted a Study Circle session in collaboration with
@IndiaY20
on defining youth priorities for Indian Foreign Policy. IR enthusiasts from all over Delhi participated in this enriching discussion🌼
We had an engaging session on the Asian states' approach to the liberal international order, based on the
@BajpaiKanti
&
@EvanLaksmana
paper in
@IAJournal_CH
.
While our mascot 🐕 preferred chilling in rain over hefty discussion, he showed no compunction in joining us for the 📸.
Had an amazing discussion on
@matthewabaum
and
@pbkpotter
's paper highlighting relationships between mass media, public opinion, and foreign policy followed by IR based review of the movie 'Don't Look Up'.
With a shift in our session scheduling, we are on a break this Sunday. The changes shall be communicated soon.
In the meantime, our mascot Sagar Ji's doppelganger friend wishes you a peaceful and happy weekend! 🌻
India's G20 Presidency is commited to make G20 a people's movement in the country.
To contribute to this vision, this Sunday we are excited to welcome everyone to a Study Circle session in partnership with
@IndiaY20
on 'Towards a Youth-centric Indian Foreign Policy'.