Boyd van Dijk
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
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Boyd van Dijk
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
· Nov 19
1) Thrilled to announce I’ve signed a new book contract with OUP. The book explores the ideas and practices of international law in wartime, focusing on actors from the Global South and East.
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Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari".
Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.
In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari".
Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.
Russia’s disturbing human ‘safaris’
Violating the laws of war, Russians have created a sick game of hunting civilians with FPV drones near the frontline. We take you behind the scenes, to the people most affected.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari".
Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.
In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari".
Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say
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Exclusive: US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say
The previously unreported intelligence pointed to doubts within the Israeli military about the legality of its tactics that contrasted sharply with Israel’s public stance defending its actions.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say
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interesting interview with Sandrine Kott in @toynbeeprize.bsky.social - on why the Cold War, rather than hindering internationalism, in fact, helped fuel it.
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International Organizations and the Cold War: Interview with Sandrine Kott | Toynbee Prize Foundation
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
interesting interview with Sandrine Kott in @toynbeeprize.bsky.social - on why the Cold War, rather than hindering internationalism, in fact, helped fuel it.
toynbeeprize.org/posts/intern...
toynbeeprize.org/posts/intern...
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Further shocking but completely unsurprising revelations of how the Biden administration disregarded US law to continue virtually unconditional arms transfers to Israel for the slaughter in Gaza.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Further shocking but completely unsurprising revelations of how the Biden administration disregarded US law to continue virtually unconditional arms transfers to Israel for the slaughter in Gaza.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social
research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
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Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again
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"Israel’s top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse. Her arrest and detention raise serious questions about the rule of law in Israel, accountability for abuse and killing of Palestinians..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Israel’s top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse. Her arrest and detention raise serious questions about the rule of law in Israel, accountability for abuse and killing of Palestinians..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
"The demand, which would require Google & Amazon to sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in hands of foreign law enforcement authorities."
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Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"The demand, which would require Google & Amazon to sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in hands of foreign law enforcement authorities."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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when the GDR supported, during the drafting of Protocols in 1977, African efforts to exclude mercenaries from being recognized as combatants or POWs, it simultaneously sought to ensure that same restrictions would not expose socialist states’ military advisers globally to same exclusionary forces.
October 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
when the GDR supported, during the drafting of Protocols in 1977, African efforts to exclude mercenaries from being recognized as combatants or POWs, it simultaneously sought to ensure that same restrictions would not expose socialist states’ military advisers globally to same exclusionary forces.
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
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Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
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“It’s been 80 years since Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity in Nuremberg, but we are still waiting for a treaty exclusively dedicated to addressing them."
UN: Momentum Builds for Crimes Against Humanity Treaty www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @hrw.org
UN: Momentum Builds for Crimes Against Humanity Treaty www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @hrw.org
UN: Momentum Builds for Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
Developing an effective International Convention to Prevent and Punish Crimes against Humanity will require ambitious and forward-looking diplomacy.
www.hrw.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“It’s been 80 years since Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity in Nuremberg, but we are still waiting for a treaty exclusively dedicated to addressing them."
UN: Momentum Builds for Crimes Against Humanity Treaty www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @hrw.org
UN: Momentum Builds for Crimes Against Humanity Treaty www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @hrw.org
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Thought this was from that new movie with Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring.
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thought this was from that new movie with Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring.
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In Trump's remarks in Japan:
"For many years, the drug cartels have waged war in America and at long last, we're finally waging war on the cartels. Were waging war like they've never seen before."
Next breath:
"More importantly, we're ending wars. We're ending wars all over this planet."
"For many years, the drug cartels have waged war in America and at long last, we're finally waging war on the cartels. Were waging war like they've never seen before."
Next breath:
"More importantly, we're ending wars. We're ending wars all over this planet."
October 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In Trump's remarks in Japan:
"For many years, the drug cartels have waged war in America and at long last, we're finally waging war on the cartels. Were waging war like they've never seen before."
Next breath:
"More importantly, we're ending wars. We're ending wars all over this planet."
"For many years, the drug cartels have waged war in America and at long last, we're finally waging war on the cartels. Were waging war like they've never seen before."
Next breath:
"More importantly, we're ending wars. We're ending wars all over this planet."
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In case you missed it yesterday — Jack Goldsmith writes on the significance of the classified OLC opinion for the Trump administration's boat strikes in the Caribbean: execfunctions.org/p/the-venezu...
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In case you missed it yesterday — Jack Goldsmith writes on the significance of the classified OLC opinion for the Trump administration's boat strikes in the Caribbean: execfunctions.org/p/the-venezu...
when the UK Department of Energy clashed during Protocols making with the MoD over Arab attempts to impose binding restrictions on attacks against oil installations - officially justified by environmental concerns (1975)
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
when the UK Department of Energy clashed during Protocols making with the MoD over Arab attempts to impose binding restrictions on attacks against oil installations - officially justified by environmental concerns (1975)
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Now on FirstView: DuBois’s Eugenic Democracy? Inder S. Marwah examines how Darwinism, eugenics, and fin de siècle race sciences shaped W. E. B. Du Bois’s early political ideas on race and racial uplift
Du Bois’s Eugenic Democracy | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Du Bois’s Eugenic Democracy
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September 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Now on FirstView: DuBois’s Eugenic Democracy? Inder S. Marwah examines how Darwinism, eugenics, and fin de siècle race sciences shaped W. E. B. Du Bois’s early political ideas on race and racial uplift
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I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | The Secretive Office Approving Trump’s Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
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Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Submit by Dec 15👇
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Please spread the word 🙏
Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Submit by Dec 15👇
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Please spread the word 🙏
Call for Papers Obstructionism in International Organizations
Date: May 20-22 2026
Location: SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy
Hosts: Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe) & Inken von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford)
Aim:
This workshop will bring toge...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Submit by Dec 15👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please spread the word 🙏
Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Submit by Dec 15👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please spread the word 🙏
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25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda: new Review of International Studies edition by Katrina Lee Koo 🎉
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda: new Review of International Studies edition by Katrina Lee Koo 🎉
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
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Research reveals racist chants on rise in Israeli football – with Maccabi Tel Aviv the worst offenders
Research reveals racist chants on rise in Israeli football – with Maccabi Tel Aviv the worst offenders
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Kick It Out Israel finds 367 instances in 2024-25
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Of those, 118 were linked to Maccabi supporters
Racist chanting by Israeli football fans grew rapidly over the past year, data shows, with Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters the most likely to engage in discriminatory behaviour.
The research was conducted by Kick It Out Israel, which is funded by a civil society organisation, Givat Haviva, that works towards the “creation of a shared society for Jews and Arabs”. It found 367 instances of racist chanting at Israeli Premier League (IPL) matches in the 2024-25 season, a record total and an increase of 67% on the previous campaign. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Research reveals racist chants on rise in Israeli football – with Maccabi Tel Aviv the worst offenders