📣NEW: "Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM" by our colleague @chiara-defranco.bsky.social & Linnéa Gelot just published in Journal of International Relations and Development
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Presented my paper on the EU and human rights at a brilliant LSE/KCL workshop on Europe in the Trump era. Big thanks to the organisers Federica Bicchi, Benedetta Voltolini, Karen Smith and Benedetta Morari. Also my first time back in London in 12 years—I’d missed this city (even the tube).
Baltic crisis, cyber chaos, pipelines blown, NATO sweating—just another Monday in the classroom with our BA students in political science and Cand.Negot.
They nailed it. They tuned in, negotiated, made decisions despite uncertainty.
Props to Hendrik Huelss for co-running the madness.
🎧 What is the future of human protection in international security? Listen to a new episode of the WarPod featuring the CWS' @chiara-defranco.bsky.social, @qiaochuzhang.bsky.social & Oscar Noach + 3 speakers at "The Future of Human Protection" conference in Copenhagen
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Why aren’t you wearing a suit?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
Pete Hegseth post: "So, let's me get this straight."
me coming in guns-a-blazing, with absolute certainty and confidence that what I say next will eliminate any doubt about my competence
Yes. He’s a very specific case of ‘the political is personal and the personal is political’. Not the feminist way. Rather the narcissistic pathological way.
Jody Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists defends US public media's crucial role in reporting in the public interest. Both NPR and PBS are seen by Trump's far right as "communists". In fact the Trump Administration is the one copying the Stalinist playbook cpj.org/2025/03/cpj-...
The same people who are responsible for the signal gate think that they can negotiate a lasting end to the war in Ukraine. Putin’s russia is eating them alive. They project weakness and amateurism on scales unseen before
Also here is a link to the book mentioned, which I co-edited with my SDU colleagues Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Martin Mennecke www.routledge.com/Ending-War-A...
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of chatting with ABC Australia Overnight’s Rod Quinn about how wars end. Tune in for 55 minutes of not-so-uplifting stories—if you dare. Ps correction needed: i’m no longer director @cwswarstudies.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Dump&Vile continue to cancel history and make idiotic statements. Denmark has been a steadfast ally—Danes have lost lives, limbs, and sleep in Afghanistan. More than any other ally (pro capita). If they wanted more US military presence in Greenland, they could’ve just asked… three months ago.
Inspirational.
Instead, give them instruments to understand how they can help the judges and local authorities that are already defending your democratic institutions. there’s plenty of research on non-violent resistance to draw from, for example by @chenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues.
This is where good journalism has an advantage over scientific analysis: you can make autocracy real to your target audience before risks materialize; 3) don’t stop at scaring your audience. There’s nothing worse than making warnees feel powerless.
2) what is a stake for you, all of you, including trump’s voters. Including the Schumers. I suspect many Americans might not fully realize what it means to live under the power of an autocrat. Give detailed examples of how their life would get transformed in tragic and yet mundane ways.
There’s unfortunately plenty of historical and contemporary cases to draw on for comparison, but Americans might believe their institutions are stronger than, say, Turkey’s so I’m not so sure these comparisons help. Just focus on how things might look like in 6 months if Trump is not contained;
My research shows legacy media like @nytimes.com can produce persuasive warnings affecting policy makers and broader public: you need to step up! You need to explain: 1) What is happening in very specific and unambiguous terms: your democracy is dying and you are becoming an electoral autocracy
I have studied warnings for nearly 17 years now and when it comes to the deadly risks the US democracy is facing, I keep seeing very strong warning indications (as in the case of the article below) but almost no proper warning, which is typical of developing crises www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
“They perform omnipotence so convincingly that only when they fall do we see how brittle their power truly was.”
“strongmen project invincibility to convince people resistance is futile. They want to crush any hope of justice. By sowing fear, they seek to stifle our democratic imagination.” www.cjr.org/world/dutert...
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
As a recent SIPRI report shows, the US accounts for 43% of global arms exports, with Europeans as their top customer over the past five years. That market’s about to tank faster than Tesla sales. www.euractiv.com/section/defe...
This is what you get when you mess with us—no enjoyment here. I’m no fan of European militarization, but it needs to be said: The claim that Europeans exploited the US military umbrella under NATO—the GDP percentage argument—ignores that much of EU defense spending went to buying US weapons.
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Two weeks ago in Chicago, I was reminded of the bright side of U.S. society and history, after weeks of news showing its darkest, most violent forces taking power.
You can do this. All of you. Together. In the streets.
"Someone's using the identity of someone who's died to do their own propaganda."
Fake journalists, stolen identities and paid articles - our @AJIunit investigation reveals a Russia-linked influence campaign in West Africa. #GhostReporters
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“…the entire system felt rigged, designed to make it nearly impossible for anyone to get out.
The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.”
