"Greenland would likely need to separate from Denmark for such a plan to proceed." 🙄 Counter-proposal: Denmark should enter into a COFA with California.

So Trump is actually going ahead authorizing deep-sea mining outside of US territory.

#PapaFrancesco Questa doveva essere la vignetta di domani per la Repubblica. E' morto nel giorno della Resurrezione, dopo aver elencato tutti i mali del mondo e invocato la Pace. Per chi crede, potrebbe essere un segno di Dio. Per tutti un segno di un uomo pieno di tenerezza, compassione e speranza

#PapaFrancesco #mondo Paradiso. Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social

Read G. John Ikenberry and Harold James on how the successes and failures of past peace settlements can inform a potential agreement between Russia and Ukraine:

Donald Trump and the UN think about "peace" in distinctly different ways, I argue in SDG Action. sdg-action.org/conflicting-...

Washington and Beijing are not backing down. As tariffs stack up, what’s at stake for global markets and everyday consumers? Scott Kennedy and Zongyuan Zoe Liu join FP Live on April 16 at 1:00PM ET to break down the escalating U.S.-China trade war. Register here:

The Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union, as it is known, is the world’s first bilateral agreement to create a special visa like this in the context of climate change.

Trump’s responses to market pressure during his first-term trade war with China give some clues about the likely path he would take if he decides to back down or if others challenge him. Here is what’s likely—and least likely—to happen next:

Diplomacy has always been personal. Donald Trump is increasingly making it transactional.

The Guardian reports that Trump was presented with various more sophisticated tariff formulas, but chose this one.

US Revokes Italy’s Eni Permit for Gas Produced in Venezuela www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Same as with Spain’s Repsol

This is the predictable result of Trump's threats against Greenland, Canada, Gaza, and Panama: Dictators elsewhere feel licensed to do the same. Eroding the foundational principle of the international legal order has consequences--and everyone will pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/w...

🚨🚨 Breaking #Europeanrearm news; today @ec.europa.eu and HR @kajakallas.bsky.social have presented a White Paper for European Defence – Readiness 2030. Brief 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

5 Big Questions in the Alien Enemies Act Litigation By Professor Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) #AlienEnemiesAct

We have our answer on whether the Trump administration would resume unauthorized hostilities with the Houthis. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...

White House issues "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua" Here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... And here is your vital expert background reading:⬇️

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Alien Enemies Act proclamation is out. Obviously this is an illegal invocation of a wartime authority for peacetime immigration enforcement. Many thoughts to come, but the first is that they messed up the drafting for what they're trying to accomplish. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

❗Exclusive: Trump Administration Appears to Launch ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Deportation Program Also @aclu.org and @democracyforward.org filed suit in early hours of Saturday morning,

More deeply worrying developments. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

The roll-over of EU #sanctions against Russian individuals and entities got approved... - 4 de-listings but Mr. Fridman still on the list... - next episode within a few months when another set of sanctions has to be extended... www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

We deeply regret the US tariffs imposed on Europe. Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business, and even worse for consumers. Today Europe takes strong but proportionate countermeasures. We remain ready to engage in dialogue ↓

Here is a link to @ec.europa.eu and @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu statement: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

OK. Tariff corner. Today, the first Trump tariffs came into force for EU & UK goods. First up: steel. As of March 12 steel articles (defined in Proclamation 9705) are subject to a 25% tariff. So are derivative steel articles (defined in Proclamation 9980). /1

My attempt to make sense of how changing international order influences international legal interpretation, exploring shifts in views of economic security + economic coercion, from postwar developing state proposals through recent resuscitations by US, EU, & others: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hard to find more graphic evidence of the legacy of the war on terror, legally and politically

The catastrophic impact of starvation crimes in Sudan.

As the Trump administration dismantles key elements of the postwar international order, it could trigger a new round of nuclear proliferation—this time not by terrorists or rogues but by the countries formerly known as U.S. allies, writes Gideon Rose.

In light of recent developments, I recently updated my Commons Library paper on Sanctions, International Law, and Seizing Russian assets. Intended to be a thorough overview of the legal issues and a resource for research, plus the latest developments. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers, as the Trump administration re-evaluates its positions across multilateral organizations, according to people familiar with the matter.

Last week, 80% of Italy's judiciary went on strike against the government's proposal to reform the judicial administration. Though not a radical overhaul, the underlying aim of the reform is to weaken judicial self-governance, analyses SIMONE BENVENUTI. verfassungsblog.de/divide-and-r...

Abbiamo un problema globale, ma pare non fregare nulla a chi di dovere.

A lot of the details in this NY Times story are previously reported but this part - this part! - is new. It's either wild freelancing from an unconfirmed nominee; a vicious negotiating squeeze; or Canada is in severe peril with the threat coming from Washington. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

The evidence that Musk is exercising power in violation of the Appointments Clause keeps rolling in: "Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: [ #USAID ]."

New interstate application lodged by Slovakia against Belgium hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=... #ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress

Trump says he’s considering large-scale sanctions on Russia after it attacked Ukraine last night. Which Trump caused by cancelling intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.

As states grapple with the effects of climate change in the years ahead, land grabs are likely to become more common, writes @mikealbertus.bsky.social. “For decades, countries have, for the most part, played with the hands they were dealt. But now, climate change is reshuffling the deck.”

Peacemaking diplomacy has been repurposed into a tool for short-term gains and geopolitical advantage rather than genuine peace, Ben Acheson and Marika Theros write.

With everything on a knife edge here is an assessment of what might be done to salvage the situation and what Europeans can do now. (free) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

Big story from Germany by Reuters' @andreasrinke.bsky.social The parties in talks to form Germany's new government are considering quickly setting up two special funds potentially worth hundreds of billions of euros, one for defence and a second for infrastructure...

Trump’s threats to seize Greenland (and annex Canada, and claim the Panama Canal) requires a strong response. The EU will have to learn how to stand up to the bully in the White House, write @sophiabesch.bsky.social and @jyshapiro.bsky.social in the Foreign Policy Essay.

Fantastic post by Prof Petros Mavroidis taking down anyone trying to rationalise US trade policy @bruegel.bsky.social www.bruegel.org/analysis/rec...

Can and should HTS be delisted by the UNSC? The continued listing of HTS poses real challenges to Syria's reconstruction, but there are ways to delist the group within a political process focused on security. see www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-... @crisisgroup.org

Turned this thread into a piece for @goodauth.bsky.social. An astonishing moment that showed how flattery and deals can't change Trump's core beliefs, why leaders' beliefs are so sticky, and how much leaders can alter the course of international politics. 🧵below. goodauthority.org/news/trump-a...

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

What do Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Ukraine really have in common? China-free supply chains for critical minerals, the resources underpinning everything from advanced weapons systems to green energy technologies, FP’s @christinalu.bsky.social writes.