Die Bundesregierung bezeichnet den Krieg gegen den Iran weiterhin nicht als völkerrechtswidrig. Zahlreiche Wissenschaftler:innen aus dem Völkerrecht und den internationalen Beziehungen fordern eine Rückkehr der dt. Außenpolitik zur UN-Charta und zum Grundgesetz: verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

✨ TODAY IS THE DAY! ✨ Get your print copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📢 New article 🌟 👤 Hallvard Hodne Sandven (ISV) 👉 Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized 📗 Published in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/736744

Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1

Recent analytical political theory has sought to develop a conceptual analysis of feasibility for the purpose of specifying the “ought implies can” principle. Two central premises of this debate are (...

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Claude Code is wild. All I did was to connect Claude to GitHub, upload the WhoGov dataset & give it the prompt: "Can you come up with your own research question based on the data, do an analysis and write a paper (10 pages). Remember to add citations." It came up with an entire paper + code. 1/4

✨New article out in International Studies Review✨ NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models. doi.org/10.1093/isr/...

I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed. Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - From the bottom up? Frontline crisis management and informal policy change in international organisations - https://cup.org/4qKq5nw - @nkortendiek.bsky.social #FirstView

Can big law firms help defend democracy? Join @statsvitenskap.bsky.social Prof. @NinaReiners.bsky.social to explore how the ERC-funded PROBONO project examines the role of private law firms in protecting human rights & the rule of law. 🗓️ Tue, 11/4 🕑2:30📍Kerwin 301 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/ProBrono

Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏

Call for Papers Obstructionism in International Organizations

Date: May 20-22 2026 Location: SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy Hosts: Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe) & Inken von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford) Aim: This workshop will bring toge...

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„Krieg ist ein großes Geschäft, Wiederaufbau ist auch ein großes Geschäft.“ Mit Berlin direkt @zdfde.bsky.social habe ich über die Wiederaufbaupläne für Gaza gesprochen. www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

Berlin direkt vom 19. Oktober 2025

Berlin direkt mit den Themen: 1.) Koalition streitet über Wehrdienst, 2.) Interview mit Minister Pistorius, 3.) Junge in der Union gegen Rentenpaket, 4.) Deutsche Hilfen für Gaza?

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Call for Papers 📣 Next June, BEYOND will host a forward-looking conference in Oslo on the lasting significance and evolving challenges of refugee protection under international law. We invite scholars, practitioners and advocates to submit their proposals by December 15. For more information:

Call for Papers: The Refugee Convention at 75: Perspectives Within and Beyond - Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS)

As the BEYOND project concludes in 2026—coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention—we are pleased to invite scholars, practitioners, and advocates to a forward-looking conference i...

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NEW ISSUE - Ethics & International Affairs - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - https://cup.org/4pNRSCI Includes a Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times cc @carnegiecouncil.org

Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

I talked to @afp.com about Germany being under increasing pressure for its Israel policy. German responsibility "could be seen as the responsibility towards international law, the international rules-based order, the promise that genocide must never happen again." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Pressure grows on Germany over rigid support for Israel

Pressure is building on Germany to join steps to sanction Israel over the Gaza war, sparking heated debate in a country that has long been at pains to atone for the Holocaust.

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Something I have been working on is starting to feel real, the proofs of Constitutional Change under Autocracy have arrived. I could not be more excited! Publication is expected in early 2026.

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: a book forum from New Perspectives pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfil...

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Available in March 2024 from Oxford: Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe, and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law by Raluca Grosescu.

🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Here comes a thread

🪃We have a new article out in @millennjournal.bsky.social: “Imperial Boomerangs: Transnational and Transtemporal Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict Configurations“ I am very happy, because this has been a proper team effort! @laurakotzur.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This finding is based on investigations and extensive evidence,” writes Navi Pillay, the head of a U.N. commission. “It has been corroborated by multiple sources.”

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza.

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Excited to be launching our festival "Sensing the Climate" in Bologna. We have a great line up of artists, musicians, films & talks held in public gardens at Le Serre di Giardini Margherita! #climate #nature #art Join us Oct 1-6th, & ck out the program here: serramadre.art/agenda/

How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition. Are non-democracies taking over? ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science

Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

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✨Congratulations @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John for turning an #ISA2024 roundtable into an E&IA roundtable✨ Read my essay and all other contributions #OpenAccess - cup.org/4ms4D3N Join us for the launch in two weeks (info below): 📅 Monday, 15 September, 18-19.30 (Oslo)

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Please join us for the launch of our E&IA Roundtable: 'Global Governance in Hard Times.' Presentations: Faude+Karlsrud; @yoramhaftel.bsky.social & @stephofmann.bsky.social; @ninareiners.bsky.social; Julia Morse; @mstephen.bsky.social. Comments: @hbirk.bsky.social; @tsommerer.bsky.social. Details:

New, somewhat bleak, piece from me on the decline of global governance: doi.org/10.1017/S089... Part of a Roundtable on Global Governance in Hard Times with @benjaminfaude.bsky.social, @ninareiners.bsky.social, @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, @stephofmann.bsky.social, John Karlsrud, & Julia Morse