Professor of Political Science, Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre, and Coordinator of the Research Group on Global Justice, McGill. Co-editor of International Theory. Posts here speak only for myself.https://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3mjibyppbjc2gWhat are walls for? To keep people out, or in? The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Congratulations to Lorenz Lüthi! https://share.google/1wLOhhtmI3NiRFApp14 Apr 2026 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjibyppbjc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3mjibyppbjc2gWhat are walls for? To keep people out, or in? The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Congratulations to Lorenz Lüthi! https://share.google/1wLOhhtmI3NiRFApp14 Apr 2026 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjibyppbjc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3mhqh6ue44c22Delighted to have this published: Symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism. The contributions are based on a Lin Centre roundtable held at McGill University in spring of 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2026.264529023 Mar 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqh6ue44c22https://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3mgstgms2p223https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-theory/article/atmospheric-violence-fanon-and-postcolonial-subjectivity/1FE1AC959B3A0B552364171939BAC9A8?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark11 Mar 2026 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgstgms2p223https://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3mbd2t66j5s2rReading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!31 Dec 2025 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbd2t66j5s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3mbd2t66j5s2rReading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!31 Dec 2025 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbd2t66j5s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3mb5tzormc22hMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social explaining how current US(Russia) 'peace talks' lead to the peace of the graveyard for Ukraine and Ukrainians. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Dec 2025 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb5tzormc22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3m5ltsgwzpk2khttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/26ba97813b7231bcdc8bfbc430f537d8b309e95438de35d04892c781571bdd61/WDVVCENAEFAMPLCHBHBI7WFROU14 Nov 2025 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ltsgwzpk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3m4qgedqsvs2aA wide-ranging video podcast in which I answer questions about why & how we should argue, the importance of thinking clearly & academic freedom, what to think about historic, structural and global justice, who broke international order & how did we get here. Happy 10th Anniversary to the Lin Centre! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Nov 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qgedqsvs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3lzxw4nrink25Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social29 Sep 2025 11:34 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzxw4nrink25https://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3lxzkol445s2xThis enthralling examination of a tragic personal/political story reimagines how people respond to politically tumultuous times, uncertainty & injustice. A bold, riveting, humbling reflection on humanity & human dignity. Congratulations, @leaypi.bsky.social! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/752510/indignity-by-lea-ypi/978077101708704 Sep 2025 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxzkol445s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3lwwifzdcxs2b'It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.' Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents.21 Aug 2025 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwifzdcxs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/catherinelu.bsky.social/post/3lt4zxiqyes2hThis Fourth of July, remember Fritz Gerlich, who warned his fellow Germans of Hitler and the road to ruin, and who was shot and killed on the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, during a purge of critics of the Nazi regime.04 Jul 2025 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:qahpthdirh6ludjcfafocary/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt4zxiqyes2h