And a Master in Public Policy, though from well before my time, so I claim no credit whatsoever. :)
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And a Master in Public Policy, though from well before my time, so I claim no credit whatsoever. :)
Excellent explainer with analysis from @janinadill.bsky.social, @oonahathaway.bsky.social, @adhaque.bsky.social, Ben Saul, and Marko Milanovic:
www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/u...
British PM Starmer says that U.K. bases will only be used for ’defensive’ operations and not ‘offensive’ ops. But how can that be so when they are being used by the aggressor?
Great discussion here with Milanovic, @adhaque.bsky.social @janinadill.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/u...
📣 Reminder: Join us on 12 March (16–18h) at the Paulinum, Leipzig, for our panel “Peace and Security in Times of Hybrid Threats.”
🗣️Panel:
Dr. Astrid Irrgang (ZIF)
Prof. Dr. @janinadill.bsky.social (ECLAC)
Oberst i.G. Katharina Benford (BAKS)
Ulrich Hörning, Mayor of Leipzig
German and English!
Thanks for flagging this issue @antjewiener.bsky.social !
This is my only disagreement with this excellent post by Marko Milanovic here on
@ejiltalk.bsky.social
www.ejiltalk.org/the-legality...
Disproportionate self-defence is a violation of int. law that affords implicated third states a right of self-defence. It does not justify the use of further force by the original aggressor, if ceasing the aggression is the most apt means to end disproportionate defensive force.
No use of force on the part of the United States in support of the Gulf states passes the necessity test that all actions in self-defence are subject to, since the United States could (and must) first and foremost cease its illegal aggression.
The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.
Rousing speeches on European assertiveness & middle powers countering hard power do not a viable foreign policy make, it turns out.
European, EU & Canadian responses to the US/Israeli aggression against Iran are short-sighted and help weaken the legal rules these countries depend on.
Winter 2026 issue preview @intsecurity.bsky.social!
R. Krebs| why populists love dead soldiers
@janinadill.bsky.social et al. | local consent for military interventions
@lmaschmeyer.bsky.social | AI & cyberattacks
Brenner | AI & strategic surprise
@johnseverini.bsky.social & Biddle | naval warfare
Thanks so much @vukusiciva.bsky.social! 🙏 (We would have needed another 5 hours to be honest.)
I'll be watching this today as I missed it when it was live, and some of the commentators are always excellent, like @janinadill.bsky.social. Do take a look. #IHL #InternationalLaw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzLS...
I mean smudged make-up is way down the list of issues :)
Exactly this...though I look a bit different doing it 😬
Watch the recording of our Conversation on Security and Accountability in a Disintegrating Legal Order at the Munich Security Conference
here: securityconference.org/msc-2026/oef...
📣 Join us on 12 March (16–18h) at the Paulinum, Leipzig, for our panel “Peace and Security in Times of Hybrid Threats,” held in the context of the AFK Conference.
🗣️Panel:
Dr. Astrid Irrgang (ZIF)
Prof. Dr. @janinadill.bsky.social (ECLAC)
Oberst i.G. Katharina Benford (BAKS)
German and English!
With: H.E. Espen Barth Eide (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway), Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (former President of the International Criminal Court and myself, moderated by Professor Christoph Safferling (Head of the Nuremberg Principles Academy)
We need to discuss at #MSC2026 why the rule of international law is without alternative for stable global security. How can we rise to the urgency of the moment?
Co-hosts: The International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social, University of Oxford.
Let’s talk about International Law at the Munich Security Conference!
“A Conversation on Security & Accountability in a Disintegrating Legal Order”
When: Friday 13 February at 10:30-11:15 am
Where: Dachgarten Lounge, Hotel Bayrischer Hof
Live-streamed on the @munsecconf.bsky.social website
A pleasure to work with the European Nuclear Studies Group on what Europe can do to secure nuclear deterrence.
The danger: when every option has huge costs & risks political incentives are not do anything at all.
But staying the course is no option at all.
securityconference.org/en/publicati...
Thank you Patricia. I hope you are well!
Shout out to @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social for bringing his a-game of explaining international law.
I had the opportunity to speak to the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the illegal US intervention in Venezuela.
The UK must decide between "leading on international law" and "the special relationship", if the latter is a reflexive support of now legally unconstrained US Foreign Policy.
I think this link should work. Thanks for your interest in teh paper. academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
3 years into the war, Ukrainians' resistance territorial concessions has weakened slightly (compared to 07/2022 when we first ran this experiment), but they STILL categorically resist Russian control.
New paper with @marniehowlett.bsky.social & @carlmc.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
If you are in Oxford, join us next Monday when Professor Eugene Rogan and I will be in Conversation with Omer Bartov about his new Book.
Registration required, link below: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/conve...
EVENT: In conversation with Omer Bartov
Join Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, in conversation with Profs Eugene Rogan and
@janinadill.bsky.social, about his new book 'Israel: What Went Wrong?'.
📆 19 January, 5pm, in person only
Register ⬇️
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/conve...
