How does ASEAN stay relevant amid a crisis in multilateralism? Sarah Teo shows how ASEAN blends formal institutional frameworks with informal diplomatic practices to maintain regional influence and adapt to new geopolitical challenges. #ASEAN #GlobalGovernance #SoutheastAsia #Multilateralism

Broken Courage is a documentary about memory, history, grief and similarity through difference; it speaks to the interconnectivity of stories and their power to heal trauma. Join us for a screening of Broken Courage, followed by a panel discussion. Today at 5:30pm! >>> bit.ly/3Pz5QL4

Do frontline crisis managers shape policy change in international organizations? @nkortendiek.bsky.social explores how frontline workers during the European migration crisis used improvisation to drive informal, bottom-up policy change in global governance. Read it now in @risjnl.bsky.social!

It's been a bad, gaffe-prone week for Carney. Messaging on #Iran has been a mess - hasty, contradictory and incoherent. A parade of unforced errors. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

The strongest voice in the West for the universal application of international law: Why Spain is right to stand up for international law in the US-Israeli war in Iran justiceinconflict.org/2026/03/04/t... #Iran

Civilians and civilian infrastructure have protected status under international humanitarian law during times of war. Attacks on schools, hospitals, residential buildings, and airports are serious violations of the laws of war and constitute war crimes. #IHL

Wholeheartedly agree with @wgreaves.bsky.social take on this.

"No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump. He's attacked 7 nations ... [and] authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in 4 years." How "Donald the Dove" ever became a serious campaign narrative is beyond me. 🙄

It’s March. Three questions for Americans: Are you better off than you were a year ago? Is the world “safer” than it was before Trump came back into office? Has your life become more affordable?

During Trump 1.0, it was “death by a thousand cuts” to international law. In term two, they’re taking a sledgehammer to it.

Canada rightly condemns the Iran regime but then says it supports the US-led war in Iran, despite it violating international law, a topic on which PM Carney is silent. Is abandoning international law what Carney meant by principled realism in his Davos speech?

There was a way to both condemn the Iranian regime and stand with the Iranian people while defending the principles of IL. By endorsing the unlawful use of armed force in a clear breach of the UN Charter, this statement does real damage and has consequences for IL. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Good questions. The rationale has never been explained to the American people:

U.S. and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran. The strikes come without authorization from congress or UNSC approval - a clear breach of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. The Iranian regime is atrocious, but the unlawful use of armed force must be condemned. bbc.com/news/article...

Strikes are manifestly illegal under the UN Charter 👇

Out now! When looking at Universal Jurisdiction cases, #Argentina is the go-to spot But why? And will this very open system continue in the current political climate? We asked Maia Czarny, @ezejim.bsky.social & Bénédict De Moerloose Listen 👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

Fantastic to see this published!

Except they’re not pawns. This media framing of “these boys are being tricked and used as props” is so lame. They’re grown men with agency who know perfectly well what they’re doing. Matthew Tkachuk is on the President’s sports council, which is mandated to keep trans women out of women’s sports.

So let me get this right: the IOC was fine with the U.S. men’s hockey team celebrating with the Director of the FBI, but kicked the Ukrainian skeleton competitor out of the games for being too political (for having the faces of fallen Ukrainian athletes on his helmet). Shameful.

Does framing refugee-led groups as 'charities' undermine localisation and decolonising humanitarianism? This article looks into how humanitarian actors dismiss refugee-led organizations and what politics sustain this. #Localization #Refugees Check it out in Third World Quarterly by Merve Erdilmen.

How do local communities in Haiti and the DRC perceive peacekeepers' use of force for #CivilianProtection? What does this reveal about the limits of mandate-based legitimacy? Check out @birtegippert.bsky.social article available in @iajournal.bsky.social.

How do the Consultative Meetings of Central Asian leaders generate local norms and institutional practices that sustain regional order beyond Western models? #Localization #IRNorms Article available in @iajournal.bsky.social by Filippo Costa Buranelli.

Under which conditions do policy norms survive within international organizations and how do 'resilient policy norms' improve our understanding of norm dynamics? #GlobalGovernance #IRNorms Check out this article in @jird-jour.bsky.social by @tschmidtke.bsky.social and Antje Vetterlein.

Shock result in #Thailand general election: incumbent PM Anutin's conservative Bhumjaithai Party is projected to win the most seats in parliament defying opinion polls that had placed the reformist People's Party ahead. bbc.com/news/article...

Incumbent Anutin Charnvirakul of the Bhumjaithai Party is expected to remain PM even if his party does not win a plurality. Anutin has played on nationalist sentiment in the #Thailand-Cambodia border wars and is the preferred choice of the royalist-military establishment. apnews.com/article/thai...

Polls close in #Thailand in what was a tight race between those advocating for far-reaching change, the People's Party (the “orange shirts”), and the conservatives led by incumbent PM Anutin Charnavirakul’s Bhumjaithai (“Thai Pride” party). bbc.com/news/article...

“For more than a 1/4 century, #Thailand … has been trapped in a dispiriting loop. Reformist parties win elections, only to be removed by courts, coups or other interventions by judges, generals and tycoons, all loyal to the monarchy. Many fear the pattern is about to repeat itself.” aje.news/r7x96a

Pleased to launch my new research project Bluesky account. We’ll be showcasing research outputs and podcast episodes, as well as spotlighting cutting edge research on international norm dynamics and localized approaches to civilian protection and transitional justice.

Shrinking political will, illiberal backlash, and gender backsliding: 25 years after its adoption, the Women, Peace and Security agenda is operating within a different political landscape. @leoniestamm.bsky.social outlines the changed context and possible avenues forward in the new #PRIFblog.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan dictator & the one the West believed would democratize Libya has been killed. Saif's death ends the #ICC's quest to have him prosecuted for atrocities. His counsel had been none other than ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan www.bbc.com/news/article... #Libya

This is Libya the week it celebrates 15 years since the start of a civil war that destroyed the country & the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Which tells you why a lot of international lawyers have never supported “responsibility to protect” (was it ever about R2P?) and NATO intervention.

Intrastate armed conflicts have increasingly internationalized. In TraCe Working Paper No. 7, Frederik Schissler, @felixbethke.bsky.social, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Constantin Ruhe, @reginesonja.bsky.social & Jonas Wolff systematically assess this trend. 👉 www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

Amazing how many international relations "realists" who've spent decades arguing that material power not ideas matter in international affairs, are suddenly recognizing that destroying trust (an idea) and perceptions of the US (more ideas) may be materially damaging to the US.

We’re well beyond the point in the President’s Davos speech where any sensible person should have walked out of the room in protest.

This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Congratulations to my @uofgpolisci.bsky.social colleague Dr. Jordi Diez for launching his new book The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America @anotherstoryto.bsky.social in Toronto last night. Buy the book! uncpress.org/978146968974...

🎉 One month until publication day! Excited to share Governing Truth with the world! Pre-order from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social via global.oup.com/academic/pro.... HIGHLIGHTS: • Centers civil society's essential role in policy design, implementation, and follow-up in transitional justice processes…

It's been a busy week for me at the Globe and Mail, including this podcast explaining international law: what it is, why it matters, and how even superpowers pay a price for violations.

While the Danes and Greenlanders are in a tough spot, how either could agree to a “working group” with an entity whose sole stated purpose is to conquer their sovereign territory is beyond me. The #EU states still cannot wrap their heads around the fact that this admin has no interest in diplomacy.

Crux of the matter: “Denmark has said the U.S. — which already has a military presence — can boost its bases on Greenland. For that reason, ‘security is just a cover,’ … Trump actually wants to own the island to make money from its untapped natural resources.” apnews.com/article/gree...

If Ottawa’s silence continues, who will stand up for us if Washington puts our own country in its crosshairs? What will it take for Canada to call out America’s violations of international law? My latest, in the Toronto Star: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

In addition to illegality of strikes, a clear-cut war crime, if true: “The laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

“The unprovoked use of armed force on Venezuelan sovereign territory is a clear breach of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which unequivocally prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🚨 Call for papers: "The Afterlife of Atrocity Tribunals"! Check out this excellent project on the legacies and afterlives of international criminal tribunals, led by Led Mark Drumbl, Maria Elander, and Rachel Killean. All info available here: wlu.app.box.com/s/ubi9i56841...

My latest, as a "gift article":

Completely agree. 👇

I’m with @zacharykaufman.bsky.social that the #Nobel Peace Prize should only be awarded posthumously. Re-upping his article from 2017: foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/05/g...

Welcome back, Gryphons! Here’s to a strong start and a great semester ahead. ❤️🖤💛

Agreed. 👇