Boyd van Dijk
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
The ICRC conducted a detention visit in Myanmar confirming Aung San Suu Kyi is still alive. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/a...
Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official, after mounting demands the military prove she is still alive | CNN
Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, in what appeared to be her first public meetin...
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great piece - by @quinnslobodian.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Damming the Big Ocean | Quinn Slobodian
Edward Fishman's Chokepoints explains how the US came to rely on its economic arsenal, but stops short of a complete assessment of the unreliable tactic and its often devastating consequences.
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excellent post on the ICC's predicament - "as each brick protecting the ICC is dismantled, a brick is added to the wall of protection around Netanyahu and Israel’s genocidal war machine." jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...
With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan's accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court
jonathancook.substack.com
Imperial Japan’s Red Cross Movement, Late 19th Century to 1930s: Origins, Development, Internationalization academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Imperial Japan’s Red Cross Movement, Late 19th Century to 1930s: Origins, Development, Internationalization
Summary. This article explores three themes in deconstructing the Western-centric historiography of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS): native anteceden
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From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war?
International law states only military sites can be targeted during conflicts, but this is routinely being ignored
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Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
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looks fascinating - "we argue that the way the coalition previously counted civilian casualties erased certain harms from view, including the indirect, cumulative, and reverberating violence that civilians suffered during this conflict". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The great Asli Bâli and I this morning on the sentimental glazing of US global supremacy - and the need to coax opportunity from its aftermath. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What should replace the American-led world order? | Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn
The task now is to stop mourning the old order and build the foundations of the new multipolar world
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Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics
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Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics
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My latest article on the Algerian War, insurgent normativity, and international norms for armed conflict
International Organization@iojournal.bsky.social · 2w agoWho gets to shape the global normative order? @boydvandijk.bsky.social draws on Algerian and Southern African archives to show how the FLN challenged it through South-South legal politics, establishing a model of insurgent legal activism that persists today. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Global South, Liberal Order, and Illiberal Transnationalism - by Rohan Mukherjee brill.com/view/journal...
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The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...
As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record
UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.
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International court tells BBC of breakthrough in Sudan war crimes probe www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudan war: ICC tells BBC of breakthrough in war crimes investigation
The ICC has been looking into atrocities committed in Darfur over the past three years.
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Who gets to shape the global normative order? @boydvandijk.bsky.social draws on Algerian and Southern African archives to show how the FLN challenged it through South-South legal politics, establishing a model of insurgent legal activism that persists today. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics
cambridge.org
My latest article on the Algerian War, insurgent normativity, and international norms for armed conflict
International Organization@iojournal.bsky.social · 2w agoWho gets to shape the global normative order? @boydvandijk.bsky.social draws on Algerian and Southern African archives to show how the FLN challenged it through South-South legal politics, establishing a model of insurgent legal activism that persists today. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
AJIL Unbound's newest symposium, "Should International Law Recognize Rights of Nature?", brings together leading scholars to examine one of the most thought-provoking questions in contemporary international law. ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
new article - Soldiers of the Law: How Military Lawyers Made Law Useful to War www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Soldiers of the Law: How Military Lawyers Made Law Useful to War | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core
Soldiers of the Law: How Military Lawyers Made Law Useful to War
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#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics - https://cup.org/4gEmlBe - @boydvandijk.bsky.social #FirstView
My new article is out in open access @iojournal.bsky.social. The norms for armed conflict are usually seen as state-centric. Drawing on archival work in Algeria & Southern Africa, I show how armed groups shaped them too, from the margins, and why that matters. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics
cambridge.org
My new article is out in open access @iojournal.bsky.social. The norms for armed conflict are usually seen as state-centric. Drawing on archival work in Algeria & Southern Africa, I show how armed groups shaped them too, from the margins, and why that matters. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics
cambridge.org
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Exclusive: Lawyer goes public with sexual misconduct claims against ICC chief prosecutor. He denies the allegations | CNN
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under intense scrutiny as member countries prepare to vote this month on whether to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan following an investigation into allegat...
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"while the Board is symptomatic of US’s unwillingness to create consensus for its power through established int mechanisms, the London Committee offered the image of France & UK as unwilling to commit to the League of Nations collective security paradigm." www.ejiltalk.org/legal-experi...
Legal Experimentation in International Institutional Law? From the Spanish Civil War and the ‘London Committee’ to Gaza and the ‘Board of Peace’
Much has been said on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ (the Board) and much remains to be seen. While the identity of the Board as an international organisation has been discussed (here), other contributions ...
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another troubling develop for ICC - though ironically a sign of its relevance still, given hegemon's hysteria/fear of it. South & Europe (esp. NL) now have no choice but to step up before too late - interest to see who drops out, with US admin ever more isolated. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
Trump’s secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations
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The H-Diplo Roundtable on Age of Emergency is out with a dream team of a reviewing lineup: Amanda Behm, Susan Carruthers, David Clayton, and Karuna Mantena, plus an introduction from Brian Drohan and a response from me. Extremely grateful to them and to Lindsay Acqui and Diane Labrosse as well.
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fascinating interview on armed groups and IHL- with director general of Geneva Call shadaislam.substack.com/p/what-is-hu...
What is “humanitarian diplomacy”- and why does it matter?
Geneva Call's Alain Délétroz tells me it is about protecting civilians during armed conflict and that means also engaging with militias and armed groups to try and stop war crimes. Often it works.
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looks like a very useful teaching tool for graduate teaching press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Second Edition
A clear, authoritative, no-nonsense guide to getting a scholarly article written “Wow. No one ever told me this!” Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching an...
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