🌐 Join us @ the launch online event of the new Special Issue of The International Spectator 👥 👥 Guest Editors Javier Bordón, @profmabon.bsky.social, in dialogue with @leogoretti.bsky.social, @dhuber.bsky.social and Tamirace Fakhoury 🔗 Info & registration: shorturl.at/8r9zk

“We are witnessing rapid steps to change permanently the demography of the occupied Palestinian territory, stripping its people of their lands and forcing them to leave” And yet, support for Israel from most western governments continues unabated news.un.org/en/story/202...

West Bank: UN rights chief warns against deepening Israeli control over Palestinian land

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Wednesday for Israel to rescind recent measures to expand control over Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.

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The Yearbook's 7th edition topics inc: 🇺🇸 Europe between MAGA & MEGA 🤖 EU digital policy in 2025 🇺🇳 The indefensibility of Europe in Gaza 🌱 Beyond the ‘greenlash' 💥The trade and tariff war 🇺🇦 Prospects for peace and reconstruction in Ukraine 📕 bit.ly/PYB2026

Progressive Yearbook 2026 - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

In an eerie manner, 2025 resembled the ‘time of monsters’, which, according to the great […]

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“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.” Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

"That silence also appears to reflect the discipline’s ingrained worldview, in which mass atrocities are committed by bad people in faraway places—not by, and with the full support of, liberal democracies." dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

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This seems like a preposterous use of the term self-defense, until you remember it's also being used to legitimize destroying hospitals, schools and universities, repeatedly shooting children in the head or chest, or blocking essentials like food and medicine www.trtworld.com/article/3806...

Our forum on the global perspectives on democracy support in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine is now out in International Studies Perspectives 👇 Many thanks to Daniela Huber and Anna Khakee for bringing this together academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

Forum: Global Perspectives on Democracy Support in Light of the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine

Abstract. This forum critically reflects on the democracy support agenda and its future in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the decline of Western po

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Towards #Allyship in #Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union’s Role as a #Global Actor @norafisheronar.bsky.social @dhuber.bsky.social and myself. Global #Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the EU in times of Dissensus over #LGBT equality Malte Breiding

So excited our special issue of JCMS is seeing the light of day with amazing contributions on "allyship" as a constructive frame for critical conversations about (the EU's) international relations. With special 🙏 to co-editors/co-authors @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social @dhuber.bsky.social

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Don’t miss our 2 panels in #EUIA25! We’ll be sharing early findings from the forthcoming SI we've guest edited in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with @norafisheronar.bsky.social and @dhuber.bsky.social "Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the #EU’s role as a Global Actor". @aissr.bsky.social

📢 New book review! 📗 The International Legal Subalternity of #Palestine in the #InternationalCommunity, review of the book by Ardi Imseis 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️ @dhuber.bsky.social

I have begun writing this article in early 2023, it is finally out with @JCMS_EU: "Organized Hypocrisy and the Logic of Coloniality. Explaining the EU's Divergent Response to Grave Violations of International Law in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... /1

Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

Der Staatsräson-Irrsinn wird in Berlin mittlerweile so weit getrieben, dass Polizei und Verfassungsschutz eine Veranstaltung in den Räumen einer Zeitung überwachen, um mögliche strafbare Aussagen einer UN-Sonderberichtserstatterin zu unterbinden. Dunkle Zeiten.

"Habeck, in his own quiet way the most contemptible of the three..." - @benwritesthings.bsky.social on the uninspiring leaders vying for Germany’s vote 🔥 thediasporist.de/men-without-...

Men Without Qualities – the Diasporist

The uninspiring leaders vying for Germany's vote

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They didn’t “lose their lives”, they were killed! Get your wording right @eudiplomacy.bsky.social @kajakallas.bsky.social

European External Action Service@eudiplomacy.bsky.social · 2y ago

At this week's FAC, the EU announced its support for the ceasefire by redeploying its Civilian Mission to Rafah. Read the HR/VP @kajakallas.bsky.social full statement here: europa.eu/!ffTww7

“genocide is enabled, ‘justified’ and even prescribed through a genocidal epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance constituted by not only the propagation of falsehood but also abuses of epistemic authority,” systemically excluding the targeted from the community of epistemic trust t.co/3HFrpS2RPw