www.theguardian.com/environment/... „Leaders from the EU, the G7 and G20 groups, and heads of state and government from scores of vulnerable countries are expected to attend the meeting, where an estimated 50,000 people will gather“. #COP30

New special issue: Can the European Union (EU) strive for Strategic Autonomy in an age of intensifying Sino-American competition? A mixed picture is found, led by @luissimonn.bsky.social and Daniel Fiott. Opening article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was nice to be included in "The Living Library of Knowledge" with my attempt to explain 1) law and morality in war, 2) the current crisis of compliance in the laws or war, and 3) nuclear deterrence. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4630...

In den nächsten zwei Semestern organisieren wir diese interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe "Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien". Jede Vorlesung an einer anderen Uni und hybrid! Ich spreche am 20.1. am @zfk-mr.bsky.social Marburg. krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation

The deadline to join the BISA PGN Committee for 2025-2026 is TOMORROW! 🎉 Find out more and get your applications in now 👉 buff.ly/ErTFNhU @interpolaber.bsky.social @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social @culawandpolitics.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

Autumn has arrived in Hamburg.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Meanwhile, Germany’s Bundeskanzler Merz is taking time off at the Munich Oktoberfest. Shameful.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... “Security guarantees in essence are a deterrent. That deterrent has to be plausible and in order for it to be plausible it has to be strong,” Stubb told the Guardian, in an interview in Helsinki before travelling to New York for the UN general assembly.“

Good morning from Finistere.

W.I.M. Kunsthalle Bonn Somebody’s about to step into this scene. Anybody?

ukandeu.ac.uk/leaving-the-... „ Is it possible to leave these conventions? If so, how? And, less radically, can these conventions be reformed?“ Must read by Professor Catherine Barnard, Cambridge / @ukandeu.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

Service Botschaft für die Süddeutsche Zeitung 👇🏻👇🏻

www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/zwe... Seemannschaft / Recht 1: SY Jolly Rose wäre aufgrund der vorhandenen Mängel bei keiner seriösen Regatta zum Start zugelassen worden; 2: SY Laura hat sich wg unterlassener Hilfeleistung zu verantworten (NB: Heute mit meinem RYA Ocean Master Hut auf.)

Autumn in the air near Hamburg.

www.ndr.de/kultur/musik... Das Festival "Jamel rockt den Förster" hat am Freitag mit einem Knaller begonnen: Die Punkrock-Band Tote Hosen war Hauptact des ersten Tages. Bis kurz vor dem Auftritt war ihr Gig auf dem Demokratiefestival in Nordwestmecklenburg geheim gehalten worden. CUDOS!

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/voel... Exzellentes Interview: „eine geschriebene Norm zu streichen, erfordert sehr viel mehr, als sie zu ignorieren. Das ist vielleicht die gute Nachricht: Dass das Recht als ein Rahmen bestehen bleibt, um bestimmte Werte durch politisch schwere Zeiten hindurchzutragen.“

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... „On Tuesday, the government announced a ‚nationally significant’ water shortage in England, which means the whole country is at risk of running out if the dry weather continues. People across England are already banned from using hosepipes (…).“

Accept the obvious: if you a) use X (for whatever professional explanation); and b) order on Amazon (for whatever personal explanation), Your proclaimed position on the critical spectrum of political engagement is hardly convincing.

It‘s official: with -39.000 miles (sic) in my LH Frequent Flyer account, I must be a pioneer of mitigating climate change 😉.

Australia on the cusp of announcing a plan to recognise Palestinian statehood "within days" joining Canada and France. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese confirms Australia will recognise Palestinian statehood in September “predicated on the commitments Australia has received from the Palestinian Authority”, including demilitarising Palestine and holding elections. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Monstrous.

For all those who have been puzzling over how to reconcile Israel's conduct in #Gaza with their idea of a military establishment subject to the rule of law and advised my empowered military lawyers.... The Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com/israel-is-co...

Published now - our #BISA2025 keynote speech by @bleiker.bsky.social 🎉 'Seeing and sensing world politics' - co-authored with Dr Emma Hutchinson - this year's keynote was recorded as a lasting memento from #BISA2025 🌟 Watch now 👉 buff.ly/IXfXfpA @julietdryden.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-... 👉🏻👉🏻 Was, wenn einer mal Rückgrat zeigt, den gesunden Menschenverstand verteidigt und dem Mann im Weißen Haus die Wahrheit sagt: „Präsident Trumps Verhalten widerspricht allen Standards der Verhandlungen und der Diplomatie.“

🥁🥁 New preprint on ‚Deep Contestation‘ 👇🏻👇🏻 Wiener, Antje, Dealing with Sources, Substance and Effects of Deep Contestation: Quod Omnes Tangit as a Heuristic (May 31, 2025). Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=536... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Thank you again for such as stimulating discussion. Delighted to have contributed. Such a momentous decision. @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro... „Der Internationale Gerichtshof in Den Haag (IGH) hat erstmals ein Gutachten zum Umgang mit der Klimakrise veröffentlicht - und nimmt damit Länder weltweit in die Verantwortung.“

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gene... 👉🏻“Möglich sind diese Verfahren nach dem Weltrechtsprinzip im Völkerstrafrecht, das Ermittlungen wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit in Deutschland ermöglicht, selbst wenn sich weder Täter noch Opfer noch Tatort in Deutschland befinden.“

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gros... 👇🏻👇🏻

www.bbc.com/news/live/ck... #sycamoretree judgement 👇🏻👇🏻

One day full of scientific discourse and networking: We used our time at the CLICCS Retreat last week to share the latest research and gather our forces for the next funding phase. Also, we honored our new Köppen Award Winner Youssef Ibrahim - congratulations!

www.theguardian.com/business/202... „Convened by the UN environment programme’s finance initiative but led by banks, the NZBA commits members to aligning their lending, investment and capital markets activities with net zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 or earlier.“ #climate

Es ist schon arg zum Verzweifeln, wenn in Texten großen Nachrichtenmedien steht, die Positionen zum Schwangerschaftsabbruch von Brosius-Gersdorf seien „umstritten“. Radikale Abtreibungsgegner*innen sind eine winzige Minderheit (nur leider sehr gut finanziert.) Die Gesellschaft ist viel weiter.

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/rich... Zeit zu gehen: „Spahn hat bei einem wichtigen Thema die Kontrolle über seine Fraktion verloren. Selbst altgediente Parlamentsbeobachter konnten sich an kein vergleichbares Ereignis erinnern. Ein Desaster für Spahn. Aber auch für d Bundeskanzler & seine Koalition.“

Brave and important warning by a group of Israeli scholars regarding "the plan to concentrate the population of Gaza in a so-called 'humanitarian city'": "If implemented, the plan would constitute a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and . . . could amount to the crime of genocide."

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250709-isr... „A leading member of Israel’s legal team in the genocide case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice has publicly condemned the Israeli military’s latest operation in Gaza as a “manifest war crime“. 🙏🏻 @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Impact factor 2.4! We are right there where Jim Tully & I had hoped to get to when founding the journal in 2009. The project of designing the first rigorously interdisciplinary journal publishing Law and IR/PoliSci has payed off. 🙏🏻 CUP Editors & Colleagues & Authors

Very pleased to chair a Roundtable on the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations at #OCIS2025. @antjewiener.bsky.social @sassangholiagha.bsky.social

🙏🏻Jannis & PoliSci colleagues left @uni-hamburg.de Notably, from an international standpoint IR is the most impactful discipline of Social Science at UHH. Internally, this keeps falling through the cracks. Everything has a crack in it (…) So let’s zoom into the cracks instead of papering over them!

...for IR lectures, BA and MA dissertations, but we can’t right now - this situation will get even more dire with this decision. The world is burning (literally and figuratively), and the University of Hamburg is not equipped to deal with it! You can find our open letter here: uhh-ib-erhalten.de.

Thanks to Vera Tröger, @maxschaub.bsky.social @antjewiener.bsky.social @peterniesen.bsky.social and many more for drafting the open letter, and to our students for the support.

Patti has the power.

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202... US <-> UN some facts: „In 2023, total U.S. spending on the UN amounted to about $13 billion. This is equivalent to only 1.6 percent of the Pentagon’s annual budget that year ($816 billion)—or about two-thirds of what Americans spend on ice cream annually.“

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Sunday reading 👇🏻👇🏻 „The UN charter, a statement of founding principles, has been critically undermined by failure to halt Russia’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine (and by last month’s US-Israeli attack on Iran).“

www.theguardian.com/environment/... „Tree planting on this scale sld have been underpinned by #ecologicalduediligence incl soil sampling, hydrological & geotechnical surveys, & an adaptive management plan to address potential failures. Proper reporting (…) for long-term monitoring & accountability.”

www.ndr.de/nachrichten/... Richtig. #Klimapolitik