Die Bundesregierung bezeichnet den Krieg gegen den Iran weiterhin nicht als völkerrechtswidrig.

Zahlreiche Wissenschaftler:innen aus dem Völkerrecht und den internationalen Beziehungen fordern eine Rückkehr der dt. Außenpolitik zur UN-Charta und zum Grundgesetz:

verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

✨ TODAY IS THE DAY! ✨

Get your print copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1 Recent analytical political theory has sought to develop a conceptual analysis of feasibility for the purpose of specifying the “ought implies can” principle. Two central premises of this debate are (...

📢 New article 🌟
👤 Hallvard Hodne Sandven (ISV)
👉 Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized
📗 Published in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1086/736744

Claude Code is wild. All I did was to connect Claude to GitHub, upload the WhoGov dataset & give it the prompt:

"Can you come up with your own research question based on the data, do an analysis and write a paper (10 pages). Remember to add citations."

It came up with an entire paper + code.

1/4

✨New article out in International Studies Review✨

NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models.

doi.org/10.1093/isr/...

I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed.

Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.

Like for you and Geneva, not the budget cuts ☹️

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#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -

From the bottom up? Frontline crisis management and informal policy change in international organisations - https://cup.org/4qKq5nw

- @nkortendiek.bsky.social

#FirstView

Can big law firms help defend democracy? Join @statsvitenskap.bsky.social Prof. @NinaReiners.bsky.social to explore how the ERC-funded PROBONO project examines the role of private law firms in protecting human rights & the rule of law.
🗓️ Tue, 11/4 🕑2:30📍Kerwin 301 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/ProBrono

Call for Papers Obstructionism in International Organizations Date: May 20-22 2026 Location: SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy Hosts: Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe) & Inken von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford) Aim: This workshop will bring toge...

Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social

Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Submit by Dec 15👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please spread the word 🙏

Berlin direkt vom 19. Oktober 2025 Berlin direkt mit den Themen: 1.) Koalition streitet über Wehrdienst, 2.) Interview mit Minister Pistorius, 3.) Junge in der Union gegen Rentenpaket, 4.) Deutsche Hilfen für Gaza?

„Krieg ist ein großes Geschäft, Wiederaufbau ist auch ein großes Geschäft.“ Mit Berlin direkt @zdfde.bsky.social habe ich über die Wiederaufbaupläne für Gaza gesprochen. www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

Call for Papers: The Refugee Convention at 75: Perspectives Within and Beyond - Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS) As the BEYOND project concludes in 2026—coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention—we are pleased to invite scholars, practitioners, and advocates to a forward-looking conference i...

Call for Papers 📣

Next June, BEYOND will host a forward-looking conference in Oslo on the lasting significance and evolving challenges of refugee protection under international law.

We invite scholars, practitioners and advocates to submit their proposals by December 15. For more information:

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NEW ISSUE -

Ethics & International Affairs - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - https://cup.org/4pNRSCI

Includes a Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times

cc @carnegiecouncil.org

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

Pressure grows on Germany over rigid support for Israel Pressure is building on Germany to join steps to sanction Israel over the Gaza war, sparking heated debate in a country that has long been at pains to atone for the Holocaust.

I talked to @afp.com about Germany being under increasing pressure for its Israel policy. German responsibility "could be seen as the responsibility towards international law, the international rules-based order, the promise that genocide must never happen again."

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Book Cover with title (constitutional change under autocracy), author (Anna Fruhstorfer), and publisher (Oxford University Press).

First page of proof with book title, author, and publisher

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.

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....

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza.

“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.”

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/...

🥳🫶🏻🥂

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

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