Giovanni Mantilla
@giofabman.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations, POLIS, Cambridge University, Fellow Christ’s College & Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. International relations/history/law/diplomacy #IHL. Colombiano 🇨🇴🏳️🌈🇬🇧
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...
🎉📢Please join me in congratulating Christian Sorace and Jostein Hauge (@haugejostein.bsky.social) on their promotion to Associate Professor, and Giovanni Mantilla (@giofabman.bsky.social ) and Tomas Larsson on their promotion to Professor. 👏
"How do social movements contribute to international order formation? New article in International Organization compares three pathways — Han China, the Abbasid Caliphate, and Reformation Europe — to show the European case is one variant, not the template. @daviesthomasr.bsky.social
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Social Movements and International Order Formation - https://cup.org/3PBokuV - Alejandro Milcíades Peña & @daviesthomasr.bsky.social #FirstView
"Imperfect as the postwar order may be, the cost of abandoning it would be far greater than the cost of reinforcing it." Alicia Buenrostro Massieu and Ander Laresgoiti on the role Mexico and other multilateral powers must play to save the international system: www.justsecurity.org/138104/multi...
How Multilateral Powers Can Still Save the World Order
A call to reinforce multilateralism and the international order and its institutions as the United States retreats.
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Finally out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Longer post to come but for now, key take-aways: international pressure matters, domestic pressure matters, international treaty law (however contested) matters, and super importantly these days, civil servants who believe in international law matter!
Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use
This article analyzes how American and British policy shifted, from rejecting to accepting the applicability of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) to nuclear use. Through a study of primary and secon...
tandfonline.com
Volume 27 (2024) of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law – "International Humanitarian Law under Pressure" is out!
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law@yearbookofihl.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Volume 27 (2024) of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law – "International Humanitarian Law under Pressure" – is now available! 🔗 Read the volume here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes. Read the letter here: www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...
Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes
Over 100 international law experts sign letter on Iran War, UN Charter, and international humanitarian law.
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Hardly a better place to spend yet another cold and grey spring day than @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
I spoke with BBC News for this important story about the U.S. air strike on an Iranian girls' school. Take a listen: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | The Global Story | Was the air strike on an Iranian school a war crime?
What we know so far about the strike - and what the legal consequences could be.
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Very grateful for this support, @britishacademy.bsky.social 🙏🏻📚📁It will enable me to complete a book project provisionally entitled “Compromise, not Consensus: International Institutional Change in a Postcolonial World (1955-1981)”. Thanks also to @campolis.bsky.social @christscollegecam.bsky.social
Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5mo agoHegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.
Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
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Zikun Yang@zikunyang.bsky.social · 5mo agoSo honored! As @giofabman.bsky.social’s first PhD student, I’ve had a privileged front-row seat to his brilliance. Giovanni is the gold standard in academia: a legendary scholar equally dedicated to the growth and well-being of his students. So grateful for his exceptional support at Cambridge! 👩🎓🎉✍️🥂
This is what Hegseth’s “no stupid rules of engagement” means - straight up war crimes.
Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.
Recently, my first PhD student @zikunyang.bsky.social defended her brilliant dissertation about China’s varying attitudes re: climate change cooperation and R2P, developing an exciting new argument based on impressive amounts of empirical evidence. Such a a joy to supervise her; I’m so proud! 👏🏻🎓📖🍾
The Trump Administration keeps throwing new arguments at the wall to see what might stick--but each one is worse than the last. This is an excellent piece by @eliavl.bsky.social explaining why Rubio's recent "double preemption" argument is a non-starter. www.justsecurity.org/133093/preem...
Double Preemption, Imminence, and the U.S. Attack Against Iran
Rubio’s argument that Operation Epic Fury was preemptive self-defense is not credible and does not satisfy the necessary precondition.
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New article by Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social titled "Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use" analysing the shift of UK and US nuclear policy. You can read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use
This article analyzes how American and British policy shifted, from rejecting to accepting the applicability of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) to nuclear use. Through a study of primary and secon...
tandfonline.com
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
For an excellent in-depth exploration of the US use of financial sanctions since September 11th onwards, listen to Episode 5 of the @lrb.co.uk Aftershock podcast 'In dollars we trust' @danielsoar.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Daniel Soar · Episode 5: In Dollars We Trust
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Shane Darcy@shanedarcy.bsky.social · 6mo agoFrancesca Albanese and various judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court "now sit on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list, alongside suspected al Qaeda terrorists, Mexican drug traffickers and North Korean arms dealers". www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Every European citizen should read this piece on the relationship between Steve Bannon and the European far right parties, as detailed by Bannon in his emails to Epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics
Donald Trump’s former adviser told Epstein in 2019 that he was ‘focused on raising money for Le Pen and Salvini’ before European elections
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NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279
Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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1/ Important read from my friends Charlie Trumbull & @mikeschmitt.bsky.social Bottom line: A sentence you could easily miss in the Trump DOJ/OLC's Maduro memo concludes a new category of *civilians* can be lawfully killed during armed conflict. It is wrong. www.justsecurity.org/130603/olc-m...
OLC Maduro Memo: Assisting War vs Participating in Hostilities
A recent OLC memo on U.S. use of force wrongly expands who can be targeted under the law of armed conflict, undermining civilian protections.
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“The Trump administration appears to believe it can prey on other states forever, and that doing so will make the United States even stronger,” writes @stephenwalt.bsky.social. But “predatory hegemony contains the seeds of its own destruction.”
The Predatory Hegemon
Ever since Donald Trump first became U.S. president, in 2017, commentators have searched for an adequate label to describe his approach to U.S. foreign relations. Writing in these pages, the political...
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From @bloomberg.com, discussing Stacie Goddard & @abenewman.bsky.social's recent work on neoroyalism. (The IO essay: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
US Foreign Policy Is Now Medieval
The search continues for a framework to make sense of, or at least label, the baffling state of world affairs since Donald Trump took his second oath of office as president of the United States. And n...
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I’m co-organizing this interdisciplinary @europeanisa.bsky.social workshop on the UNSC in gorgeous Izmir this summer July 1-3, alongside Stefano Recchia (SMU). Still a few days left to submit abstracts (Feb 11). Consider sending yours in!
Jacob Katz Cogan@jkatzcogan.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’m co-organizing this interdisciplinary @europeanisa.bsky.social workshop on the UNSC in gorgeous Izmir this summer July 1-3, alongside Stefano Recchia (SMU). Still a few days left to submit abstracts (Feb 11). Consider sending yours in!
Jacob Katz Cogan@jkatzcogan.bsky.social · 6mo agoFinally out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Longer post to come but for now, key take-aways: international pressure matters, domestic pressure matters, international treaty law (however contested) matters, and super importantly these days, civil servants who believe in international law matter!
Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use
This article analyzes how American and British policy shifted, from rejecting to accepting the applicability of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) to nuclear use. Through a study of primary and secon...
tandfonline.com
Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our thoughts.
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · 6mo agoWith military options reportedly off the table, NATO and the United States are now discussing the creation of sovereign US bases in Greenland. MARKUS GEHRING & NASIA HADJIGEORGIOU explain why such sovereignty carve-outs would violate international law. verfassungsblog.de/why-us-sover...
