Israeli military tells besieged, trapped Palestinians to leave (where?) as #Rafah offensive imminent. Over weekend, Israel rejected ceasefire & hostage deal. It booted Al-Jazeera, 1 of few outlets with reporters on ground across Israel/Pal. Lives of more than 1.4m people at risk

Take a minute to appreciate the statement, and then marvel at the fact that an editor actually made it a serious headline

Are you a scholar, student or policymaker working on the European Union? 🇪🇺

Check out 12 invaluable reading recommendations to learn about the EU, its political challenges, and how it deals with various crises: ⤵️

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It is now six months since award-winning #journalist Minnie Chan last filed a story for South China Morning Post. Based here in #HongKong , last seen in Beijing. Her current and former colleagues and the broader community of journalists here care only for her welfare and hope she is OK.

Macron ‘laid out an impressive set of big ideas’, but ‘he failed to articulate a clear strategy or grand bargain to unite the rest of Europe behind his vision’. This is bound to exacerbate the EU’s ‘capability-expectations gab’, as Nicole B Scicluna & I warned onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Highly recommend this special forum. A terrific analytical introduction followed by rich and historically informed articles on different suborders of the LIO: trade, nonproliferation, collective security, climate change, int criminal law, refugees, and economic development.

Why is #contestation of liberal order growing? Why is it radicalizing in some parts (e.g. #WTO ) but remaining modest in others (e.g. #UNFCCC )? Our Global Studies Quarterly special forum co-ed. w/ Stacie Goddard, R. Krebs & B. Rittberger provides some answers (short 🧵)👇
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Former ICJ President Donoghue engages in the ethical error of obtuseness (thx Emily Kidd White) when she attempts hairsplitting between plausible 'rights' and 'claims.'

TL;DR the Court decided there was, at minimum, a serious risk of genocide or related acts in Gaza. 🧵

I had the pleasure of organizing & hosting a seminar at HKBU GIS discussing the Future of EU-China relations after the EP elections.

Esteemed guests Thomas Gnocchi, Nicole B Scicluna, and Roland Vogt provided excellent insights into the challenges & opportunities that lie ahead.

A short(ish) 🧵 on reports that Netanyahu and his government are in emergency talks over credible 'information' they have received that the #ICC plans to issue warrants against senior figures in the Israeli government, including Netanyahu.

Hey everyone, I'm working on an opinion piece about whether Eid and Diwali should be public holidays in Hong Kong. If anyone that belongs to either religious community has an opinion on this, please feel free to reach out. Thank you for taking your time in reading this!

Horrifying. AI-generated 'kill lists' rubber-stamped by humans - sometimes based only on pattern-of-life similarity analysis to actions of known Hamas members.
Confirms, too, that Israel now accepts extraordinary civilian casualties in strike planning 1/2
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Took the time to visit the famous Mount Zero bookshop in Sheung Wan today. Above the door it says 'Ideas are bulletproof. Sadly not bulletproof enough. Harassed by the authorities, it will close next week.

Yep, FT is right👇 As Nicole B Scicluna and I argued in JCMS recently “the EU continues to over-promise and under-deliver. Reversing this pattern is vital to the EU's credibility as a foreign policy actor, though it seems unattainable…” (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A special honour to learn recently that my book will receive the Best Book in Global IR award from ISA. An award that is named after T.V. Paul, whose considerable and diverse body of scholarship has impacted so much of the field, including my own work.

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1000%. The right of resistance, like the right of self-defense, is a right to meet force with force, not to attack, starve, or collectively punish the defenseless.

Such acts are not only prohibited by other rules.

Such acts are not exercises of the right in the first place,

A *Political Contest Theory* to explain contemporary IO authority transfers: #informal internationalization and unilateral #renationalization with Bernhard Zangl LMU Global Governance --> out now JEPP #OpenAccess (short 🧵)
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European politics scholars! I'm chairing EuroPolAPSA's award committee for best book in European politics for 2023. Deadline is March 15, 2024! Email us/have your publisher email us (info below) to nominate your book & we'll share our mailing addresses! EUSA CES European Consortium for Political Research

On Saturday, the Israeli +972 Magazine journalist Yuval Abraham won the Berlinale Documentary Award for his film “No Other Land.”

His speech w/ Palestinian co-director went viral. “This situation of apartheid btw us,” he’d said, “this inequality, it has to end.”

Today he posted this:

The 100th child killed in the West Bank since Oct 7 was 'wearing his football kit and carrying his school bag when he was shot in the head and killed' by Israeli forces. “It was an execution,” says his father. theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…