"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-...

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-...

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

📢 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-...

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

“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