Given the tensions between the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV, come along to our @lseir.bsky.social event to learn more about the 'Papacy in Global Politics', with @massimofaggioli.bsky.social, Dr Carmody Grey, and Prof.James Walters. Chaired by yours truly. www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

NYT headline. Vance going out of his way to embarrass himself.

"Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide."

With unwavering US support under both Biden and Trump, is it any surprise that Netanyahu concluded that Israel can bomb virtually anyone and anywhere in the Middle East, with impunity? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Would never use Trump's rhetoric of genocide, but was willing to let Trump use UK bases to conduct one.

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A dilemma which we resolved at Nuremberg

@financialtimes.com's Andrew England and @hauslohner.bsky.social on how the Gulf states have belatedly recognized that yoking themselves to a rogue, aggressor United States – obviously a mistake – may, in fact, have been a mistake: www.ft.com/content/dcbd...

Book launch for new textbook on "Concepts in IR" - tomorrow 2 April at King's College. I'll be speaking about my chapter on the concept of Colonialism, and its evolution in theory & practice. Look forward to sharing a panel with great colleagues & co-contributors www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Last month, we hosted a book launch with @lseir.bsky.social for Daniel Neep's latest book, 'A History of Modern Syria' 📚 We were joined by discussant Charles Tripp and chair @jasminekgani.bsky.social. You can listen to the event recording here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...

My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September! Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.

Secondary effects. Asia's investors reconsidering investments in the UAE. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

This US govt's dehumanisation of whole categories of people on a racist whim will not remain confined to war or people abroad.

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Atmospheric violence: Fanon and postcolonial subjectivity - cup.org/46vlUCw "Revolutionary violence in anti-colonial movements is either glorified as a liberating force or vilified as terrorism" - Hye Yun Kang

📢 New out! Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social argues for Black activism in Britain to be viewed through a more global lens. #activism #anti-colonialism #anti-racism #BlackLiberationFront #BlackPower #decolonization #neocolonialism #Pan-Africanism Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

"The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an intl system in crisis. The certainties of the US’ hegemonic stewardship of the intl rules-based order have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place"

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

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Israel's policies put the US at risk. So instead of restraining Israel, the US bombed Iran - with no agreement on their end-goal, with zero plans for what comes next, and no system for safe evacuation of US citizens in the region. Does the US have agency in its Middle East foreign policy or not?

Marco Rubio "the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked – and we believed they would be attacked [by Israel] – that they would immediately come after us.” www.reuters.com/world/us-not...

UK's Starmer, and also France & Germany, were willing to follow the US into war on this flimsy basis. Europeans staking their foreign policy and military decisions to Israeli belligerence.

Particular focus on "post-colonial political thought, or whose work might connect political theory and historical political economy"👇

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer says "Iran can end this now" by returning to the negotiating table. Disingenuous & grossly misleading given negotiations were progressing as of yesterday... and US & Israel still went ahead and bombed Iran anyway. youtu.be/vrW2vvPoMGM?...

Girls' school reported to be among first targets of US-Israel strikes on Iran, killing over 50 people. There is no basis for "preventative strikes" in International law; this is, yet again, entirely illegal from the US & Israel. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

The man who brought you “Island of Strangers” has views on divisive politics

A potentially devastating war of choice without strategic urgency, with strained troops and the backing of only one in every five Americans.

‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now! archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...

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It's got a cover! Coming out in June.

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"This article situates Kant’s theories and epistemologies of race within a wider architecture of knowledge production and coloni- ality, and from there considers how his approach can illuminate our understandings about methodology and scholarly praxis." @jasminekgani.bsky.social Reading List 📚

Israel is a top 10 global arms exporter. In 2024 arms exports rose to $14.9 billion, with 54% of those purchases made by Europe (MOD data). The UK spends millions of pounds each year on “battle-tested” arms from Israeli companies. This 👇 is what "battle-tested means".

My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press). Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... (summary of core arguments in thread below) @lseir.bsky.social

Discouraging student dependence on AI with punitive measures has no impact when rising fees have turned degrees into a mere instrument for the job market. As this thread shows, restoring the value of human intellect to the heart of what a university education is about is key.

South Asia scholars in IR 👇

Please join us for this book launch on Wed 4 February, 6pm with the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social "A History of Modern Syria" by Daniel Neep Look forward to chairing this panel with Daniel and Charles Tripp as discussant. Registration details below (opens from 21st Jan) www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

Look forward to joining colleagues in Doha in the new year to discuss the postcolonial politics and contested meanings of international law. Many thanks to @fatimaahdash.bsky.social and Safaa Jaber for the invitation & for organising this timely symposium 🙏

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

This was an excellent event - and now reading the book, can highly recommend. Necessary for anyone working on race and international law, not just Palestine. Race and the Palestine Question (Stanford Uni Press, 2025): www.sup.org/books/middle...

Thrilled to publish this exceptional collection on Syria a year after Assad pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...

This was an excellent event - and now reading the book, can highly recommend. Necessary for anyone working on race and international law, not just Palestine. Race and the Palestine Question (Stanford Uni Press, 2025): www.sup.org/books/middle...

A new book prize in political theory 👇

If you wonder whether these comparisons of Trump to Nazis go too far, remember that Hitler was present in the German political scene long before he created the first death camp And at that point, he was calling Jews “vermin” Which-of course-is not dissimilar from Trump calling Somalis “garbage”

🎉I am very pleased to share the publication of our @millennjournal.bsky.social Vol. 53 Special Issue: Traversing Memories in Global Politics. You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...

The Society currently invites applications for its 'Workshop Grants' programme 2026: bit.ly/3MlbX46 Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project. Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians