Fascinating new study by @irenefmolina.bsky.social, from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social shows how the EU’s longstanding territorial undifferentiation practices have been successfully challenged through “lawfare”, or legal activism, from the Polisario Front, producing compelling case-law.

📣 Call for Papers: Migration Power Europe @irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying! 🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

هل سيفي ملك #المغرب بوعوده بخلق وظائف وتحسين الرعاية الصحية والتعليم؟ وهل ستحقق حكومته أيضا في استخدام القوة القاتلة وتُفرج عن المتظاهرين السلميين المعتقلين؟ #GenZ212

More here: abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/echoes-of-ir...

Open access and fresh off the press, this volume explores the connections between secessionists, international law, and war. My chapter examines the role of international law in the final stages of fighting between the Tamil Tigers and government forces in Sri Lanka. share.google/cxrU8KTtrvKH...

👇 New article in @govandopp.bsky.social where Alfonso Casani, @fcolin.bsky.social and I bring together our theoretical and empirical work on foreign policy, opposition and authoritarianism through the extreme case of Morocco and Israel's wars on Gaza, and with material from field research since 2007

Is irregular migration really a recent phenomenon? Drawing on colonial archives, Y. Benhadda traces #lhrig, a Maghrebi term for irregular border crossing, back to colonial Morocco, challenging dominant narratives of crisis and unprecedentedness in today’s migration debates. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

New on #FirstView - "Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza" - cup.org/4mF9E9x - Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social

#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social - Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza - cup.org/4mF9E9x - Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social #FirstView

Bienvenido CEARC, nuevo centro de estudios sobre el mundo árabe orientado hacia la comunidad investigadora y el público hispanohablante en Europa y América Latina

Really happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD yesterday! Thanks to my supervisors @irenefmolina.bsky.social and @briegp.bsky.social for their support throughout the journey and to examiners Martin Thomas and @fionaadamson.bsky.social for their generous and constructive feedback.

🇹🇳I’m thrilled to share our new article with @mhlarramendi.bsky.social‬ & Antonio Alfonso: “Voting with dissatisfaction: An analysis of the 2019 parliamentary election in Tunisia" doi.org/10.1080/1351... in ‪@democratization.bsky.social‬ #Tunisia #elections #populism @pablodeolavide.upo.es

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Israel wages war invoking “self-defence”.Nuclear armed Israel/US attack Iran to stop it making nuclear weapons it wasn’t making.Europeans call for diplomacy without condemning the attack that killed it.Russia opposes the violation of int law, while doing far worse in Ukraine.As Orwellian as it gets

Delighted to report that our colleague Kevork Oskanian will be a permanent member of CAIS faculty from September! Congratulations, Kevork! @drkevorko.bsky.social experts.exeter.ac.uk/38375-kevork...

Esto de @galtares.bsky.social elpais.com/cultura/2025...

Los acontecimientos deportivos de primer nivel como forma de ejercer el poder blando en las relaciones internacionales: el caso de Marruecos y el Mundial de fútbol 2030. ✍️ Antonio Navarro www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/mun...

NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels. This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

My colleagues and I tried to grapple with similar questions last year in this @gsqjournal.bsky.social Special Forum academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic....

🚨 New paper out in European Journal of IR 🚨 Faiz Sheikh and I draw on Ibn Khaldun’s political thought to rethink the crisis of liberal international order—not as a problem of technique, but as an unresolved and destructive tension between LIO’s claim to universalism and its entrenched whiteness.

Funded workshop at Southampton on the topic of "Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe"! Workshop will be held on June 16. Please submit your proposals/abstract by May 21. (Please help circulate widely!) Kamil Zwolski, John Denham, and I are the coordinators of this event.

Starmer's Britain. Not even subtle.

Must read from Josep Borrell. "“We’re facing the largest ethnic cleansing operation since the end of the second world war in order to create a splendid holiday destination" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The MESA Board of Directors has issued a statement condemning unlawful visa revocations and intimidation targeting international students and scholars. Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/let...

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

Llega #LaAzotea 8. En #AzoteaCasielles tenemos el placer de escuchar las reflexiones de Laura Casielles sobre Marruecos, el Sáhara Occidental y la responsabilidad colonial y actual de España @ymouled.bsky.social @reimrevista.bsky.social @irenefmolina.bsky.social En 📻 go.ivoox.com/rf/141326031

Happy International Women’s Day from Rosa Luxemburg and me ✊❤️!

Amazing essay, as little is known about Italy's colonial project in Libya. Italian settlers (~20,000) built concentration camps in the desert of Sirte where 100,000 Libyans were confined. By 1951, Italy’s ethnic cleansing may have decreased the local population by 10% newlinesmag.com/first-person...

What is the Middle East? I’m thrilled to announce the publication- and free download - of my new, hopefully provocative Cambridge Element on the theory and practice of regions and area studies. Get it now and let me know what you think! abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

Delighted to host Professor Ayşe Zarakol at Exeter today! A great turnout for a thought provoking talk on whether today’s poly crisis is unprecedented? The answer? Yes and no, but the 17th century is a better historical analogy than 19th or 20th @aysezarakol.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

EWIS workshop to be led by two Exeter CAIS colleagues @irenefmolina.bsky.social @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between

Call for abstracts for our @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS25 workshop on 'The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between' (Krakow, 2-4 July) Convened by @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social and myself 👉 eisa-net.org/wp-content/u... Submission deadline: 11 February

Article in the Lancet estimates the number of direct casualties in Gaza up till the summer of 2024 at 64,260. 40% above official estimates. With excess mortality, the death toll will be in the hundreds of thousands. The question is how many hundreds. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our @cais-exeter.bsky.social colleague Bice Maiguashca doing amazing work: "Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser" Nancy Fraser, Bice Maiguashca, and Charles Masquelier (2024) #int-rel #poltheory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you’re looking to catch up on scholarly work on Syria, I’ve posted a number of reading lists over the years. Here’s one, featuring Ora Szekely’s Syria Divided and Dipali Mukhopadhyay & Kimberly Howe’s Good Rebel Governance plus another ten for background. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/wrestling-...

We're hiring (in Politics)! Politics is one of six disciplines in the department of SPSPA. We're a collegial, intellectually diverse and high-acheiving bunch. The students are outstanding, mostly, and Exeter's going places as a University. Oh, and Devon is beautiful. DM me for more

👇 New article in International Affairs where we theoretically dissect and map where and how power operates in the governance of international migration – co-authored with @tsourapas.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...