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.

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In open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

👇 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.

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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:
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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...