Glad I could contribute to this forum on the relevance of the UN after 80 years. I see the UN -- specifically the UNSC -- as largely successful because, "The original purpose of the Security Council was to prevent war between the great powers, not to prevent the great powers from waging war."

US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court. The past and present show that only states who fear accountability for atrocity crimes attack or leave the #ICC. guardian.ng/news/burkina...

crucial new roundtable in JGR - on Gaza and genocide studies www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgr20/0/0

Tendayi Achiume's new (and open access) piece on reparations and international law - as part of a larger special issue on reparations in @ajil.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What a sight. Stranded in Idlib just 10 months ago, the new Syrian leadership hit Central Park

Incredible work here, from the Onion. theonion.com/netanyahu-th...

“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

out now bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-no-fly-z...

looks fascinating - congrats @lukemoffett.bsky.social www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...

"As international norms crumble, Turkey’s revisionist policies appear less provocative in comparison." foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...

critical intervention by Or Bassok - "banality of evil in the Gaza war is not embodied in malicious individuals but in routine work of jurists who authorized orders for air strikes that have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians while relying on IHL." www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...

Colleagues have backed up the point with data and infographics. The answer is no: political violence in the US is if anything declining, not rising. The far right commits more than the far left, but both are rare, and fewer than 10% of Americans endorse violence for political goals.

The University of California, Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 faculty members and students as part of an investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents”, a move a targeted scholar likened to a “practice from the McCarthy era”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

interesting - that's a rather quick free transfer from HRW to MSF USA www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/docto...

The sentence against former president Bolsonaro is a landmark for Brazil, which has a history of coup attempts that went unpunished. Brazil´s Supreme Court defended people´s right to vote and for their vote to be counted. It affirmed nobody is above the law. www.bbc.com/news/article...

appearing later this month global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

appearing next month www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

fascinating new piece in Humanity on the 'dark side of IHL' and Gaza - by Victor Kattan and Rémi Fuhrmann muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Tom Menger's new book is out now - with @kimatiwagner.bsky.social blurb "In The Colonial Way of War, Menger presents a masterclass in transimperial history", congrats @tommenger.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

my review of Lauren Benton's new book is out now in @lawandhistrev.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

with the right link: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/po...

Catherine O’Rourke is looking for a new (three-year) postdoc for her ERC project on the role of care in international law (deadline: 15 Sept). my.corehr.com/pls/dcurecru...

Our new posting looks at what we have learned about CIA operations in Colombia during the 1960s from the newly declassified JFK assassination records. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Making of Mamdani - on Mahmood Mamdani's new memoir, by @hofrench.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/z...

"We need to remember that the UN’s most valuable contributions have come not through security council enforcement action, but through mediation and the unique value of the secretary-general as a neutral arbiter and diplomat of last resort." www.ft.com/content/426f...

Nadia Kornioti's new book presenting a legal history of the 1960s Cyprus Troubles is out link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

👀 apnews.com/article/pent...

my review of Lauren Benton's new book is out now in @lawandhistrev.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Monica Hakimi has a new piece out in the YJIL - on thinking constructively about international law papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...

very promising new (and open access) edited volume on European famine history - by Ingrid de Zwarte Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

"Even with renewed hopes for an end to the war, Russia’s brutal tactics have fuelled a demographic crisis for Ukraine. In 2024, Ukraine suffered the lowest birthrate in the world and the highest mortality rate." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"Even with renewed hopes for an end to the war, Russia’s brutal tactics have fuelled a demographic crisis for Ukraine. In 2024, Ukraine suffered the lowest birthrate in the world and the highest mortality rate." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Second woman accuses ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan of sexual misconduct www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug...

fascinating blog post on humanitarian resets - by Hugo Slim blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...

Why ICJ Judge Sebutinde faces calls to quit from Israel genocide case www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Although I’ve major reservations about their Eurocentrism, this is still a very interesting reply by Koskenniemi to Anderson’s analysis of international legal history - in the @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

interesting new article on Indonesia and the politics of the NIEO www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

terrific interview www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

"If prohibition on use of force is falling apart, we must not simply mourn the loss. We must consider what we can do to protect against most catastrophic effects of this shift & seize opportunity to build a new, more resilient, more equitable int legal order." carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

"Unconvincing in Hathaway & Shapiro’s argument is their teleological narrowing of ius contra bellum. I contend that its roots reach further back than they claim – and that the stark old-versus-new order dichotomy they draw is, historically, untenable." www.ejiltalk.org/does-might-u...

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

Wiebe Hommes' new book - on the ECHR's reception in the Netherlands - is out www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

"In reading these unprecedented [liberal Zionist] condemnations of Israeli actions, one gets impression that something in its approach has changed dramatically recently, not just in degree, but in kind. It has not." excellent piece - by @simonerzim.bsky.social ‬ jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...

One of the best pieces I’ve read in ages about where we are now. Does that brilliant and impossibly difficult thing of articulating core truths that you know and have even shouted across tables at people but reframing them so you see them with a different clarity & can redefine your own argument.

This is an intriguing new @intsecurity.bsky.social article on China as essentially a status quo power challenging US assumptions of high aggression direct.mit.edu/isec/article...