the official portrait of King Charles makes him look as though he's mostly known for a massacre of Communists in 1920 in Siberia.

very exciting - Lydia Walker's new book is now available in open access, see link below.

cambridge.org/core/books/sta…

Interview with Martin Thomas on his new book 'The End of Empires and a World Remade'

press.princeton.edu/ideas/martin-t…

Permanent College Lectureship in Spanish ⁦⁦Cambridge University⁩! I had this job post-PhD and Murray Edwards College⁩ is such an amazing place to work! Brilliant colleagues (no, like REALLY brilliant), great students & a friendly, relaxed environment. Apply! murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/contact/work-f…

last summer Zachariah Mampilly and UptownBerber brought a bunch of us together in paris to discuss racial politics and colonial legacies in france, africa, and the middle east. here's what come out of it (published open access)
pomeps.org/pomeps-studies…

I am delighted to have reviewed a new volume on the civilian protective agency for Civil Wars Journal. It's the book I wished I had when doing my PhD, and each chapter brings a new perspective to how people protect themselves in impossible situations
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Writing on Colonial History on/from/of the Nordics? Join us ”Critical Nordic Colonial Legal Histories”, stream. CfP ⤵️, deadline for paper proposals 30 June. With Love Rönnelid #CLC2024 #legalhistory #colonialism ✊🏾✊🏿 ✊🏼

'Some [students] have explained to me... that they ground their action not in the rules of the university or even in their constitutional rights to assembly and expression, but in the ruling of the International Court of Justice in response to South Africa’s case against Israel.'

Yugoslav writer Ivan Ivanji, erstwhile interpreter for Tito, died at 95 after opening a new museum near Buchenwald, the concentration camp he survived. This is what his son Andrej posted about how elegantly he died:

Well done on putting together such a fascinating programme! 👏 All welcome on 31 May Magdalen College. Free registration via the link in the first comment on Ming's post.

Thomas Meaney - The Winning Side newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Full result of the vote on enhancing State of Palestine's membership at the UN.

looks intriguing

global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Excellent TNR review by Udi Greenberg of Stefanos Geroulanos’s new book on the Invention of Prehistory: newrepublic.com/article/181262…

Telford Taylor discussing Rawls and his take on the question of justice and the laws of war - especially in times of aggression and self-defense (1974).

Telling chart from The Economist.

The number of vetoes in the #UNSC in 2024 so far is already approaching the highest number of vetoes *in a whole year* in the post-Cold War era. There will be more.

economist.com/international/…

Hays Parks claiming that the 'ICRC borrowed a page from the Marxist-Leninist lexicon' in creating the term IHL- while casually alluding to his own experience of killing communists in Vietnam (1990).

Our special issue on blockade in the era of the world wars is coming together. Here‘s another piece: Heather Jones Prof H Jones on the Mediterranean blockade and wartime radicalization in World War I tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Check out our fellow Jan Eijking latest blog on the role of experts in multilateralism.

changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/beyond…

puzzling, can't find any bio information regarding US Lieutenant Colonel James R. Miles - who's allegedly the principal architect of radical shift in history of US govt legal thinking wrt air bombing (i.e. AFP 110-31); any advice?