How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ac06Pp3
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
This event at SPUI25 on 1 April with @ssregilme.bsky.social, Wouter Werner, Pierre Lavie and Else Lanjouw about how #ICE raids show how easily state-inflicted violence on marginalized communities comes to be normalized sounds extremely interesting!
Is China Replacing U.S. Aid in Africa? Not Exactly.
Washington is shifting toward trade and strategic deals, while China says its engagement has always focused on infrastructure and development finance.
Obert Hodzi and Santino Regilme join us to explain the difference.
Screenshot of article text reading: Is there any legal basis to US claims on Venezuelan oil? No. International law is clear that sovereign states own the natural resources within their territories under the principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources (PSNR). This means that sovereign states have the inherent right to control, use and dispose of their resources for their own development. The concept of PSNR emerged after 1945 during the decolonisation of former European colonies. It was solidified by the United Nations General Assembly in a resolution adopted in December 1962. Under this law, therefore, Venezuela owns its oil. It would be illegal under international law for the US to lay claim to it. “A blanket claim of US ownership of Venezuelan oil has no credible basis in international law,” said Regilme. “The more legally recognisable claim is narrower – namely demands for compensation tied to alleged unlawful expropriation of specific investments, which is the terrain of investment arbitration and enforcement litigation.”
Al Jazeera, last month, quoting a prof at Leiden University.
Where, WHERE is this kind of clear explanation in the US press.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Regilme benadrukt het belang van sociale cohesie voor Europa. Dat betekent o.a. rechtvaardige verdeling van de kosten voor een sterkere defensie. decorrespondent.nl/16737/de-vs-...
De Amerikaanse macht in de wereld neemt af – daarom gaat Donald Trump nu tot het uiterste om zo sterk mogelijk te blijven, zegt politicoloog Salvador Santino Regilme. In Trumps visie domineren China, Rusland en de VS elk hun eigen werelddeel.
Wat staat Europa te doen?
@gatool.bsky.social
🔔 New in @risjnl.bsky.social by Bart-Jan Zandee and @ssregilme.bsky.social. "Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe" doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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New Review of International Studies article out w/ Bart-Jan Zandee & Salvador Santino Regilme 🎉
'Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe' in their new article and video abstract! 📚
👉 https://ow.ly/mxgw50XSNkm
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#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe - https://cup.org/4pA0jB9
- Bart-Jan Zandee & @ssregilme.bsky.social
#FirstView
When does “help” become domination? In my TEDx talk, I show how foreign aid can bankroll security forces and fuel supply-chain exploitation, and how to redesign it to be locally led, rights-tied, transparent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e32o...
#TEDx #HumanRights
How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
LinkedIn is very useful. It seems many academics are using it as a substitute for twitter
How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy?
"Trump’s war on drugs during his first term performed an ideological war that had lethal consequences—mobilizing fear, justifying racialized punishment, and projecting authoritarian resolve—while leaving underlying structural crises largely unaddressed." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"The university is not a sanctuary; it is a frontline site in the global struggle over justice and human rights. To study global structures of power without acknowledging how our own institutions are shaped by them is not an act of neutrality—it is a failure of scholarly responsibility."
This is just appalling, disgusting, gutter racism.
𝗢𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆: 𝗨𝗦 🆚 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮
@ssregilme.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) examines how the trade war between the US and China is both used as a political tool, and reinforces inequality - in this Transforming Society blog @brisunipress.bsky.social 👇
@geopolitieknu.bsky.social
The book is now available for pre-order through Manchester University Press and has its dedicated webpage: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183194/.
#China #UnitedStates #ForeignAid @manchesterup.bsky.social
FINALLY! The dysfunctional far-right government Schoof has effectively fallen, after Wilders pulled his party from the coalition.
Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?
@ssregilme.bsky.social argues that #Trump’s #Tariffs mask a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary Americans while weakening the economy and global alliances: buff.ly/cST8TYj
This is phenomenal.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
The liberal insistence that Trump et al are just “stupid” and not deliberate in their choice of words and policies is absolutely infuriating. If they’re just “stupid” and you can’t beat them, then what are you? They’re intentional. They’re brutal. They’re organized. And they’re genuinely dangerous.
It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
Interview ⤵️
Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.
Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.
