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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 1d

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 1d

[email protected]: "there is a sense that emerging from this moment [for the ICC] is going to require more than just weathering the storm. It's going to require something more fundamental in terms of rehabilitating and reconstructing the system."

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/20...

“The backlash of the powerful”: Two years of Israel’s war in Gaza and the crisis of international law

We spoke to legal expert Tom Dannenbaum about accountability efforts and how the US’ response is threatening to break the system of international law.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 1d

Very much looking forward to our conference next week at @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social and to discussing post-war times in the (early) modern period with @doctoressa.bsky.social @claudiussittig.bsky.social @andrekrischer.bsky.social @paulinastarski.bsky.social

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social · 1d

Eighty years after the end of World War II and in view of the numerous conflicts worldwide, urgent questions about the nature and history of postwar times once again arise. The FRIAS project group "Post-war periods" organizes an international conference on the topic. uni-freiburg.de/frias/the-af...

Poster der Universität Freiburg für die internationale Konferenz “The Aftermath – Post-War Times in Modernity and Premodernity: Re-Constructions | Re-Writings | Re-Orderings”, organisiert vom FRIAS Project Group Post-War Periods. Im Hintergrund ist ein historisches Gemälde der zerstörten Kreuzkirche in Dresden (1765) von Bernardo Bellotto zu sehen. Das Poster zeigt die Logos der Universität Freiburg und des FRIAS, Konferenzdaten (16–18 October 2025, FRIAS seminar room, Albertstraße 19), beteiligte Fachbereiche und Kontaktinformationen.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

There are some people whom the media has decided are "leading intellectuals", regardless of the views of their academic colleagues. Invariably they are people who justify - or at the very least do not challenge - economic power. Steven Pinker is a stand-out example.
www.monbiot.com/2018/03/09/c...

Contrary to Reason

Steven Pinker claims to champion Enlightenment values. But his latest book is an affront to them

www.monbiot.com

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 2d

On the making of the ICC arrest warrants against Israel's leadership and their tragic conflation with allegations of sexual misconduct against their author:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Hague on Trial

The chief prosecutor has obtained warrants against Israeli leaders for war crimes—but faces allegations of sexual misconduct.

www.newyorker.com

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 2d

interesting Jervis forum on Lauren Benton's new book

issforum.org/roundtables/...

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-7 on Benton, They Called it Peace

Roundtable Review 17-7 Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton University Press, 2024). ISBN: 9780691248479. 6 October 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt17-7 |...

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 2d

Alex de Waal: "The global consensus against the starvation weapon took decades to achieve. Now, international apathy risks letting it collapse at the moment it is most needed."

www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/return...

The Return of the Starvation Weapon

The collapse of global norms fueling the catastrophes in Gaza and Sudan.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4d

Spoke to @notus.com:

“The administration is trying to apply the legal framework from the war on terror to narcos and drug trafficking organizations in Latin America. The facts do not support that application. There has been no armed attack on the United States.”

www.notus.org/foreign-poli...

The Pentagon Says It’s Conducting Strikes on Drug Smugglers. Critics Say Trump Needs Permission

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes will continue “until the attacks on the American people are over.”

www.notus.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

American intelligence officials have now confirmed to CBS News that Netanyahu ordered the drone attacks on the Sumud flotilla while it was docked in Tunisia, an attack launched from Israeli Navy submarines off the Tunisian coast.

Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, CBS News has learned.
Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8
and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 5d

I completely missed this, but it's a great review of Immi Tallgren's volume - feel privileged to be part of it.

issforum.org/essays/PDF/E...

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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 6d

UVA invited to join select group of collaborationist universities

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 6d

a fascinating 4-year PhD vacancy on the interwar history of blockade & sanctions

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, fully agree - as we’ve argued repeatedly, and thanks for the heads-up.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Starvation is a war crime. So why is it so rarely prosecuted?

From Bengal to Gaza, hunger is often used as a weapon of war but almost never punished.

www.aljazeera.com

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 7d

very interesting

mpil100.de/2025/09/die-...

Die Gutachtenpraxis des KWI zum Kriegsvölkerrecht für das Amt Ausland/Abwehr und das OKW – MPIL100

mpil100.de

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 7d

Crossing the ‘Global South Frontier’: Mapping Latin American Presence in International Relations Publications

www.cejiss.org/crossing-the...

Crossing the ‘Global South Frontier’: Mapping Latin American Presence in International Relations Publications

www.cejiss.org

Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations!!! Looks fantastic

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 8d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 10d

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT

The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215
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INVESTIGATION
The Djiboutian massacre
Ethiopia won’t acknowledge
Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its
border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists.
Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of
the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s
tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity.
Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters.
zecharias zelalem
On 30 January this year, a drone manned
from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a
funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote,
semi-arid village near the Ethiopia
Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a
second bomb dropped. And then a third.
At least eight people were killed,
including three children. Several
others were injured. Given the village’s
remoteness, the incident might have
gone unreported if graphic images of
the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian
social media.
A statement from the Djibouti’s
defence ministry said the drone struck
rebel fighters from the Front for the

Restoration of Unity and Democracy
(Frud), a Djiboutian political party with
a military wing. It has been fighting for
Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s.
The Afar are a community split by the
colonial border separating Ethiopia,
Djibouti, and Eritrea.
“Eight terrorists were neutralised on
site,” said a Djibouti military statement.
“Unfortunately, collateral damage
among Djiboutian civilians in the area
has been documented.”
International media, including Voice
of America, Agence France Presse, and
Radio France Internationale reported
this version of events.
Now, new findings from an open
In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was
injured in the drone strike.
source investigation by The Continent
reveal a different reality.
The bombs landed inside Ethiopia,
not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed
fighters – were killed. That distinction
matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again
tolerating a foreign military targeting its
own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during
the Tigray conflict.
A transparent lie
Even before the ink could dry on the
Djiboutian military’s statement, The
Addis Standard and human rights groups
in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike
had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s
Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an
adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl
Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports
in now-deleted social media posts.
The Continent got to work to figure out
what really happened. Over the course
of eight months, we collected eyewitness
testimonies, interviewed human rights
activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and
examined images and footage from the
strike. Our findings align with those of
Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed
Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the
site of the strike.
The ammunition residue found on the
night of the strike confirms the bomb
was manufactured by Roketsan, a state
run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye.
Former US army explosives expert
Trevor Ball identified t…

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 12d

very interesting new paper on the interwar origins of the concept of the civilian

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Inter-war interactions in the development of the protection of civilians: a historical perspective | Legal Studies | Cambridge Core

Inter-war interactions in the development of the protection of civilians: a historical perspective

www.cambridge.org

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you ☺️ My understanding is that the lecture will be recorded!

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 14d

feeling privileged & very much looking forward to offering comments on what promises to be a terrific San Remo lecture - by Helen Durham

iihl.org/fourth-sanre...

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 14d

interesting discussion of the intellectual/Germanic origins of geopolitics in the US - "during WWII, many US academics and politicians condemned geopolitics at the very moment that state institutions were trying to appropriate it".

booksandideas.net/Geographers-...

Geographers in Battalions

About: Florian Louis, De la géopolitique en Amérique, Paris, Puf 2023, 443 p., 25 €.

booksandideas.net

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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 15d

Glad I could contribute to this forum on the relevance of the UN after 80 years. I see the UN -- specifically the UNSC -- as largely successful because, "The original purpose of the Security Council was to prevent war between the great powers, not to prevent the great powers from waging war."

Chicago Council on Global Affairs @global-affairs.bsky.social · 15d

As the General Debate opens at #UNGA, Council experts @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social, @busbyj2.bsky.social, @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social, @kfriedhoff.bsky.social, @ckafura.bsky.social and @profpaulpoast.bsky.social weigh in on the UN's power and relevance. ⤵️

globalaffairs.org/commentary-a...

The UN is Turning 80. Is It Still Relevant?

From peace and security to climate and technology, Council experts weigh in on whether the United Nations can still deliver on its founding mission.

globalaffairs.org

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