Euan Raffle

Duterte at The Hague - New Mandala It’s a blow to impunity—but not even close to a fatal one

NEW: Rodrigo Duterte's arrest marks a milestone for accountability and truth. But culpability for drug war abuses goes far beyond him, and the Philippine justice system remains ill-equipped to overcome a politics that favours impunity, argues Patrick Peralta. www.newmandala.org/duterte-at-t...

Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report

Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report

ISRF Fellow Rachel Rosen (@ucl.ac.uk) & Mai Abu Moghli (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) on a recent report commissioned by the UN, via @uk.theconversation.com.

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As Duterte was arrested last week, my former co-author @euanraffle.bsky.social wrote a thread. I posted a video about his arrest on TikTok & had around 70 angry messages from the public in the Philippines telling me Duterte is the best leader the country has ever had. Says a lot about populism.

As well as bringing accountibility for Duterte and some semblance of justice for the families of victims, hopefully the ICC proceedings will forever dispel the notion that the #warondrugs can be resolved by yet more violence.

Rodrigo Duterte appears at ICC hearing in The Hague by video link Allegations of crimes against humanity laid out against former Philippines president over his deadly ‘war on drugs’

Cumulatively, this research hopefully highlights the utter hypocrisy of Duterte bemoaning his 'extrajudicial rendition' to the ICC (especially given that the Philippines was signed up to the Rome Statute until 2018, two years into the war on drugs!)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs Abstract. This article explores how the war on drugs in Southeast Asia upholds the protection of the young as a key justification for extrajudicial killing

Finally, ​my paper in ​I​nternational Political Sociology argues that despite invoking the threat that illegal drugs posed to children, Duterte simultaneously presented them in biopolitical terms as 'dangerous becomings', who constituted a threat to society: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

​Following this, my paper in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social proposes an alternative typology of extrajudicial killing in the Philippines, where ​'state vigilantism​' represents an effort to present state orchestrated killings as the product of genuine vigilantism. doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...

Failing to fulfil the responsibility to protect: the war on drugs as crimes against humanity in the Philippines The article provides the first substantive analysis of the war on drugs in the Philippines under the Responsibility to Protect. It develops in two stages. First, it argues that the war on drugs con...

In a 20​19 paper with @adriangallagher.bsky.social and Zain Maulana, we argue that the war on drugs in the Philippines clearly constitutes crimes against humanity. doi.org/10.1080/0951...

As I'm new here, here is some of my research- particularly into the #warondrugs in the Philippines, covering #Duterte and his route to the #ICC.

USMEC : US Military-Entertainment Complex from the Cold War to the War on Terror This research project examines how American popular culture, including movies, TV shows, and other media, intersects with U.S. military and foreign policy messaging from the Cold War to today. The PhD...

Come join us! Funded PhD project on popular culture and US foreign policy, supervised by Dr Ryan O'Connor, @dranthonymay.bsky.social, and myself @mybcu.bsky.social Further details here: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...
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