Let's be clear: Israel's attack on Iran is not simply a violation of the UN Charter. It is a manifest violation of it. Few acts are more unequivocally illegal than preventive (non-imminent) self-defence. So Israel's attack is both unlawful and criminal -- the crime of aggression.
Also to wave in front of students, teaching committees, etc.
The annihilation of the Palestinian people on our watch. Anyone with a conscience, this is unconscionable.
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📣 Millennium is excited to announce the Vol. 54's Call for Abstracts for the 2025 Symposium! This year's theme is "After International Relations." We hope to engage with scholars from across the discipline and beyond. 🔗 Read the full call here ⤵️ millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...
I find Jairus Grove's 'Savage Ecology' (2019) unsettling yet oddly soothing to read. Especially this passage:
Haha, doesn’t it always begin with words, and then someone runs the numbers?
Maybe there is something on random drafting for parliament somewhere in political theory to get you started?
Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
I’ve seen some drafts - they are really great. And what a stellar list of contributors.
The forthcoming Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology, edited by Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social, and @olejacobsending.bsky.social, looks great. Including some exciting #HistIR contributions 👇
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For anyone in Copenhagen come April: a highly topical event hosted by Centre for the Study of Global Nationalisms. Please join, and register below!
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Alex and I wrote a @foreignaffairs.com article that contained a fairly lengthy rant about how the DC foreign-policy establishment was whistling past the graveyard. Most of it wound up getting cut. But not this part 👇
Just turned in my last exam paper on my MSc - one of the most invigorating writing experiences I have had so far. It explores cannibalism in Brazilian modernism and its possible uses as concept in IR and beyond. Here is the title and the epigraph (from Juan José Saer's 'The Witness'). #HistIR
I think so too - we are reading Planet Politics for week 7!
Thank you Jeppe - hope all is well!
Thank you very much, Martin!
This week the advanced IR theory course for undergraduate Political Science students at University of Copenhagen begins! And I happily get to be Teaching Assistant running once-a-week tutorials. Teaching wisdom, pedagogical tips, memories from first encounters with IR theory, etc. much appreciated!
And also big thanks to my supervisor @mjbayly.bsky.social who provided inspiring guidance, and to Shikha Dilawri and @jmulich.bsky.social who gave valuable advice along the way as well!
I am astonished, grateful, and proud to be the recipient of the @lseir.bsky.social Martin Wight Dissertation Prize for my MSc International (Research) dissertation on imperial domination and its resistance on St. Croix during its time as a Danish colony. Read more on the link below!
Look forward to seeing this new place grow!
About time for an introduction in here! I am an MSc student at the University of Copenhagen studying International Relations(IR). I am especially interested in historical IR, Global Historical Sociology, (Danish) imperialism, plantations, and environmental crises.
I come back to it all the time!
Brilliant! Thanks!
Could you share the final reading list once it’s done? Looks like it will be full of gems. Also - is the course in any particular discipline?