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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Call for Papers: Migration Power Europe

@irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying!

🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov
ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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HRW_AR @hrwarabic.bsky.social · 9d

هل سيفي ملك #المغرب بوعوده بخلق وظائف وتحسين الرعاية الصحية والتعليم؟ وهل ستحقق حكومته أيضا في استخدام القوة القاتلة وتُفرج عن المتظاهرين السلميين المعتقلين؟ #GenZ212

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 10d

More here:

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drmeganprice.bsky.social @drmeganprice.bsky.social · Sep 23

Open access and fresh off the press, this volume explores the connections between secessionists, international law, and war.
My chapter examines the role of international law in the final stages of fighting between the Tamil Tigers and government forces in Sri Lanka.

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Contested States in War and Law

Contested States in War and Law; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together perspectives from a range of disciplines, this book explores the precarious situation of s...

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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · Sep 12

In open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza

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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · Sep 12

👇 New article in @govandopp.bsky.social where Alfonso Casani, @fcolin.bsky.social and I bring together our theoretical and empirical work on foreign policy, opposition and authoritarianism through the extreme case of Morocco and Israel's wars on Gaza, and with material from field research since 2007

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · Sep 11

Is irregular migration really a recent phenomenon? Drawing on colonial archives, Y. Benhadda traces #lhrig, a Maghrebi term for irregular border crossing, back to colonial Morocco, challenging dominant narratives of crisis and unprecedentedness in today’s migration debates.

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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Government and Opposition @govandopp.bsky.social · Aug 28

New on #FirstView -

"Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza" - cup.org/4mF9E9x

- Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 28

#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social -

Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza - cup.org/4mF9E9x

- Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social

#FirstView

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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · Jul 1

Bienvenido CEARC, nuevo centro de estudios sobre el mundo árabe orientado hacia la comunidad investigadora y el público hispanohablante en Europa y América Latina

Haizam Amirah Fernández @haizamamirah.bsky.social · Jun 30

Con gran ilusión y sentido de la responsabilidad, he asumido el puesto de director ejecutivo del nuevo Centro de Estudios Árabes Contemporáneos #CEARC

Comparto la carta de bienvenida que he publicado en nuestra web (cearc.net).

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Yazid Benhadda @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social · Jun 24

Really happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD yesterday! Thanks to my supervisors @irenefmolina.bsky.social and @briegp.bsky.social for their support throughout the journey and to examiners Martin Thomas and @fionaadamson.bsky.social for their generous and constructive feedback.

Brieg Powel @briegp.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations to @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social from @cais-exeter.bsky.social
for passing his PhD viva yesterday. Yazid explored legacies of colonial policing & migration in Europe & N.Africa

Thanks to examiners @fionaadamson.bsky.social & Martin Thomas, and lead supervisor @irenefmolina.bsky.social

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Bosco Govantes @boscogovantes.bsky.social · Jun 20

🇹🇳I’m thrilled to share our new article with @mhlarramendi.bsky.social‬ & Antonio Alfonso:
“Voting with dissatisfaction: An analysis of the 2019 parliamentary election in Tunisia"
doi.org/10.1080/1351... in
‪@democratization.bsky.social‬
#Tunisia #elections #populism @pablodeolavide.upo.es

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Yazid Benhadda @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out:
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Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices

Abstract. Despite its sophistication, most of the literature on the securitization of migration remains presentist in the sense that it has not yet truly i

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Nathalie Tocci @nathalietocci.bsky.social · Jun 22

Israel wages war invoking “self-defence”.Nuclear armed Israel/US attack Iran to stop it making nuclear weapons it wasn’t making.Europeans call for diplomacy without condemning the attack that killed it.Russia opposes the violation of int law, while doing far worse in Ukraine.As Orwellian as it gets

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Centre of Advanced International Studies @cais-exeter.bsky.social · Jun 2

Delighted to report that our colleague Kevork Oskanian will be a permanent member of CAIS faculty from September! Congratulations, Kevork!

@drkevorko.bsky.social

experts.exeter.ac.uk/38375-kevork...

University of Exeter

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Maruja Torres @marujatorres.bsky.social · May 29

Esto de @galtares.bsky.social

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El hambre como arma de guerra en la era de la abundancia

Thomas Keneally, el autor de ‘La lista de Schindler’, investigó las hambrunas a lo largo de la historia y llegó a la conclusión de que todas las víctimas comparten el mismo sufrimiento

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Real Instituto Elcano / Elcano Royal Institute @rielcano.bsky.social · May 26

Los acontecimientos deportivos de primer nivel como forma de ejercer el poder blando en las relaciones internacionales: el caso de Marruecos y el Mundial de fútbol 2030.
✍️ Antonio Navarro
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Mundial 2030: la puesta de largo sobre el césped del soft power marroquí

El Mundial 2030 representa para Marruecos una oportunidad estratégica para proyectar su poder blando a escala regional e internacional.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · May 27

NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels.

This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

An overhead photo showing 100s of people corralled by fencing and barbed wire into a tiny area. Three security people in high vis on the other side of the gates.

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Lucas Knotter @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social · May 20

My colleagues and I tried to grapple with similar questions last year in this @gsqjournal.bsky.social Special Forum academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic....

Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order: Furthering a Research Agenda

Abstract. This article serves as the introduction to this Special Forum on Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order. The articles in this Spe

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Owen D Thomas @drowendthomas.bsky.social · May 14

🚨 New paper out in European Journal of IR 🚨 Faiz Sheikh and I draw on Ibn Khaldun’s political thought to rethink the crisis of liberal international order—not as a problem of technique, but as an unresolved and destructive tension between LIO’s claim to universalism and its entrenched whiteness.

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Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social · May 13

Funded workshop at Southampton on the topic of "Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe"!

Workshop will be held on June 16. Please submit your proposals/abstract by May 21. (Please help circulate widely!)

Kamil Zwolski, John Denham, and I are the coordinators of this event.

Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe

The Centre for Comprehensive European Security at the University of Southampton is pleased to invite paper submissions for an upcoming workshop on Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe. The workshop will take place on June 16 at the University of Southampton.
Europe is currently navigating a period marked by significant political upheaval and realignments – both domestically amidst the rising tide of populism and internationally with the second Trump Administration. We invite papers that explore the relationship between identity (broadly defined) and public opinion about European security.

Globalisation, energy security, and the rise of a multi-polar world (inter alia) significantly challenge the ability of nation states to meet the aspirations of voters in both domestic and international affairs. Yet, the nation state retains its place as the primary site of political contest and preference aggregation. We seek papers that explore the how this space between expectation and delivery has implications for comprehensive European security.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · May 12

Starmer's Britain.

Not even subtle.

They found ourselves made strangers in their own country. Enoch Powell. We risk becoming an island of strangers. Keir Starmer.

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · May 10

Must read from Josep Borrell. "“We’re facing the largest ethnic cleansing operation since the end of the second world war in order to create a splendid holiday destination"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat

Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

www.theguardian.com

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