Something I have been working on is starting to feel real, the proofs of Constitutional Change under Autocracy have arrived. I could not be more excited! Publication is expected in early 2026.

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023! An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: a book forum from New Perspectives pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfil...

🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Here comes a thread

🪃We have a new article out in @millennjournal.bsky.social: “Imperial Boomerangs: Transnational and Transtemporal Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict Configurations“ I am very happy, because this has been a proper team effort! @laurakotzur.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This finding is based on investigations and extensive evidence,” writes Navi Pillay, the head of a U.N. commission. “It has been corroborated by multiple sources.”

Seit heute ist unsere @interactfu.bsky.social Studie zu Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Selbstzensur unter Nahostforschenden online. Für @tagesspiegel.de hat @jmwiarda.bsky.social die Ergebnisse zusammengefasst: share.google/PwlicDCFD2o4... Zur Studie: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/Grimm-D...

Excited to be launching our festival "Sensing the Climate" in Bologna. We have a great line up of artists, musicians, films & talks held in public gardens at Le Serre di Giardini Margherita! #climate #nature #art Join us Oct 1-6th, & ck out the program here: serramadre.art/agenda/

How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition. Are non-democracies taking over? ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

✨Congratulations @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John for turning an #ISA2024 roundtable into an E&IA roundtable✨ Read my essay and all other contributions #OpenAccess - cup.org/4ms4D3N Join us for the launch in two weeks (info below): 📅 Monday, 15 September, 18-19.30 (Oslo)

New, somewhat bleak, piece from me on the decline of global governance: doi.org/10.1017/S089... Part of a Roundtable on Global Governance in Hard Times with @benjaminfaude.bsky.social, @ninareiners.bsky.social, @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, @stephofmann.bsky.social, John Karlsrud, & Julia Morse

#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests - https://cup.org/4ms4D3N - @ninareiners.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView #HumanRights

#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline? - https://cup.org/3JvyR7r - @benjaminfaude.bsky.social#OpenAccess& John Karlsrud #FirstView

Follow the Bergen Exchanges here - vimeo.com/event/531010...

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚 Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat... @sabinecarey.bsky.social

Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.

🔥🏟️ New article out: I am very happy that @felixanderl.bsky.social and my paper ”Dangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions“ has just been published in @jird-jour.bsky.social and that it’s open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧶👇🏼 1/

Authoritarian regimes use regional organizations to suppress dissent and bolster their power as @debremaria.bsky.social shows in her new book "The Dictators' Club". As autocrats coordinate across borders, democratic actors must do the same, she writes. www.democracywithoutborders.org/37302/

On 9 July, the US imposed sanctions on special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Below I provide a brief context of this unprecedented attack against this body of experts.

ICJ Opinion: Unanimous. States have obligation under human rights law to protect the climate and environment.

66/ 🎆 What a clear ruling today! What a victory for #ClimateJustice! On fossil fuels, right to a healthy environment, historic responsibility, compensation, duties of States withdrawing from Paris: the Court's affirmation of legal principles will enable a new era of accountability.

States are obliged to regulate private actors in the context of climate chage

"it is difficult to see how these (IHRL) obligations can be fulfilled without, at the same time, ensuring the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment" "under international law, the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is essential for the enjoyment of human rights"

✨ Our forum “Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy” is out #openaccess in International Studies Review ✨ 👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/... @ninahall.bsky.social

Senior Researcher Alexandra Cosima Budabin with @ninahall.bsky.social and Karell Mawla Ibnu Kamali at the ERC funded workshop When For Profit Goes Pro Bono- Motivations, Practices, and Impact held at the Centre Universitaire de Norvege a Paris. www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

Thrilled that our piece 'Hollow Multilateralism' is out in the latest issue of @iajournal.bsky.social! Co-authored with @danielleflonk.bsky.social, we show how autocracies use liberal language to hollow out norms in internet governance and sideline critical non-state actors.

This looks like a great opportunity to work with @ninareiners.bsky.social 🎓. Being a PhD student at UiO (at least in my experience...so far!) equals an exceptional work/life balance, interesting work, committed colleagues, and snow & lakes nearby -- a pretty unique balance in academia these days.

New publication! In @iajournal.bsky.social, @debremaria.bsky.social and I show the emergence of hollow multilateralism, whereby autocracies use the rules and principles of the liberal international order to hollow out the system from within. Our paper is open access! academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

“So, bottom line – all of these arguments are really trying to dress up purely preventative action into something more legally respectable. These arguments are not just weak, they are fatally weak.” Peak Marko. Hang it in the Louvre.

Wonderful conversations w/ @ninareiners.bsky.social & Alexandra Budabin & all on Pro Bono Law and its implications for global governance, workshop in Paris. @uio.no @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social

🎯 Open research positions! We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance. 📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...

Many thanks to @ninareiners.bsky.social and @debremaria.bsky.social for hosting a successful workshop (with lots of delicious food 😂), and an opening event at the incredible Norwegian Nobel Institite!

The best conference so far this year! Congratulations to @ninareiners.bsky.social & @debremaria.bsky.social on fostering such a rich interdisciplinary discussion on this timely topic! Not to mention an incredible opening event at the historic Norwegian Nobel Institute!

Lovely sunny day in Oslo 🇳🇴 discussing autocracies & global politics. Many thanks to @debremaria.bsky.social @ninareiners.bsky.social y.social for organizing.

Great start to 3 days of discussion at the “Autocracies as International Lawmakers” Workshop, University of Oslo - hosted by @ninareiners.bsky.social @debremaria.bsky.social 🇳🇴

A decade-long court battle between a Peruvian farmer and German energy giant RWE over the company’s global emissions and its impact on his hometown finally came to an end on Wednesday.

✨We warmly invite you to the opening event of the workshop "Autocracies as International Lawmakers", co-hosted with @debremaria.bsky.social ✨ The discussion is followed by a reception. Please register here: www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/... 📅 2 June 2025, 15:00-17:00 📍 Norwegian Nobel Institute

Important contribution by Scott Cummings in today’s NYT #probono

✨We warmly invite you to the opening event of the workshop "Autocracies as International Lawmakers", co-hosted with @debremaria.bsky.social ✨ The discussion is followed by a reception. Please register here: www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/... 📅 2 June 2025, 15:00-17:00 📍 Norwegian Nobel Institute

You can now see a preview on Google Books of my new book w/ Alex Cooley Dictating the Agenda: the Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics Out next month in USA, available for pre-order everywhere.

Looking forward to #ESIL2025 in ✨Berlin✨ and to chairing Agora 5: Actors of Reconstruction! 11-13 September 2025 www.esil2025.de

Für die gestrige Tagesspiegel-Beilage der FU habe ich aufgeschrieben, dass die Lehre aus der Geschichte, Verantwortliche für Kriegsverbrechen zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen, nicht politischer Profilierung geopfert werden sollte www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...

@fau.de Center for Human Rights invites applications for a senior researcher (postdoc with research and teaching experience) in #HumanRights Deadline: 15 May 2025 www.humanrights.fau.de/2025/04/11/s...

✨ Finally out - thanks to Maryam and Sigrid! Great pleasure to be part of this collaborative project and see the edited volume "A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition" available open access ✨ My chapter: academic.oup.com/book/59913/c...

I'm excited that my article "Postcolonial Embarassment" was published over the holidays. The article examines the UN Arria Formula Meeting on the humanitarian situation in Cameroon 2019 and argues that the meeting significantly shaped international responses to the violence. 1/1