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Finally, huge thanks to @AlvinaHoffm @KerryGoettlich @jleighIR @miacerto @GeorgeLawsonIR @AyseZarakol @debbielisle (for encouragement to persist with failure) and others for generous help along the way!

Argument will hopefully be of interest both to Russia (@lisas_research @Juliewilhelmse2 @DavidCadier @MaxineDavid @AVReshetnikov) & stigma scholars (@RebAdlerNissen @xymenakurowska @MichalSmetana3), plus wider norms/emotions field (@SimonKoschut)

3) Russian stigma management, particularly counter-stigmatization of West over its own interventions, resonated with several states globally, regardless of Russian conduct. It's been a similar, sad story since the full-scale invasion

2) Partly because of 1), it is hard to impose the kind of material costs and status loss that would force change, particularly when the 'target' is large and relatively well integrated in the global economy, and its population is largely on side

1) Building a global 'stigmatising coalition' is hard, even against flagrant norm violations, particularly when the coalition builders are compromised by own prior behaviour and not fully united themselves

It argues that Western attempts to stigmatise Russia over its initial (2014) aggression in Ukraine failed - failed to deter further aggression and (arguably) to reinforce the norm of non-aggression - and identifies three reasons/lessons:

Very belated publication announcement (blame parental leave): glad to see 'When Stigmatization Fails: Russia and Aggression in Ukraine' out in the good pages of @Journal_of_GSS late last year doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogac02…

Thanks to everyone who helped along the way, especially fellow panellists at ISA 2018's 'Make ____ Great Again' panel, colleagues at Groningen and Edinburgh and ERIS's editors

The most interesting finding, we think, is that the left talks about 'greatness' as much as the right, just in different ways - the question isn't 'is Britain great?' but 'how is Britain great?, demonstrating the national 'habit' of greatness that @srdjanvucetic has described

Very happy to see this article on rival conceptions of 'greatness' in the UK's referendums on Europe, co-authored with the indomitable Ben Martill, published in the good pages of European Review of International Studies: brill.com/view/journals/eris…

Huge thanks to @miacerto, @jleighIR, @AlvinaHoffm, @KerryGoettlich, @ashamsla, @GeorgeLawsonIR, @K_Kaczmarska, @EinarWigen and @AyseZarakol, among others, for help and feedback along the way!

Argument will hopefully be of interest both to stigma scholars whose work it builds on (@RebAdlerNissen @MichalSmetana3 @xymenakurowska @AVReshetnikov) and Russia scholars (@lisas_research @Juliewilhelmse2 @MarkGaleotti @NKuhrt @MaxineDavid)

Important caveat: the article does not touch directly on Russia's brutal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, and conceptualising Russia as stigmatised in international society is in no way meant to condone or justify Russian actions

It argues that the interactive dynamic of Russia's increasingly confrontational stance on norms like human rights, coupled with increasingly direct stigmatisation as a result, has been a core contributing factor to the crisis of liberal order/ordering

Very happy to finally see this in print in the good pages of @GSQ_Journal! The article builds on literature on stigmatisation and liberal ordering to introduce the idea of 'stigma dynamics', and traces Russia's stigma management v/a/v liberal norms since 90s

Join @ashamsla, myself and others for #EWIS2022 workshop on temporality & international (dis)order - details below!

What @ashamsla said - please submit if interested and join us at #EWIS2022!

A long train journey was just greatly improved by listening to @BrentJSteele1's great Hayseed Scholar podcasts with @AyseZarakol and @HalvardLeira. Thanks all for taking the time to make these and for the musings and reflections, look forward to listening to the back catalogue!