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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Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were dragged from their bedroom by US forces during the raid that led to their capture, two sources familiar with the matter said. The couple was kidnapped in the middle of the night as they were sleeping, the sources said
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Maduro and his wife dragged from their bedroom during capture
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been captured and flown out of Venezuela after the US carried out a large scale strike, US President Donald Trump announced. Follow for live updates.
www.cnn.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were dragged from their bedroom by US forces during the raid that led to their capture, two sources familiar with the matter said. The couple was kidnapped in the middle of the night as they were sleeping, the sources said
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Needless to say, Congress did not authorize the US military intervention in Venezuela.
"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'"
- WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
- WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview
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Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2)
Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.
www.vanityfair.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Needless to say, Congress did not authorize the US military intervention in Venezuela.
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Krigens regler går langt tilbage i tiden og nyder trods udfordringer stadig bred opbakning. Alligevel er ét spørgsmål blevet ved med at dukke op: Kan man både arbejde for at afskaffe krig og for at gøre den mere human?
Verdens lande mødtes i Genève for at humanisere slagmarken – og forberede sig på fremtidens krige
www.information.dk
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Krigens regler går langt tilbage i tiden og nyder trods udfordringer stadig bred opbakning. Alligevel er ét spørgsmål blevet ved med at dukke op: Kan man både arbejde for at afskaffe krig og for at gøre den mere human?
for my Danish followers: this is my final message of 2025 as we enter the new year - on how states are preparing for the wars of the future, and what that means for the project of humanizing warfare.
www.information.dk/moti/2025/12...
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Verdens lande mødtes i Genève for at humanisere slagmarken – og forberede sig på fremtidens krige
Krigens regler går langt tilbage i tiden og nyder trods udfordringer stadig bred opbakning. Alligevel er ét spørgsmål blevet ved med at dukke op: Kan man både arbejde for at afskaffe krig og for at gø...
www.information.dk
December 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
for my Danish followers: this is my final message of 2025 as we enter the new year - on how states are preparing for the wars of the future, and what that means for the project of humanizing warfare.
www.information.dk/moti/2025/12...
www.information.dk/moti/2025/12...
The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/w...
The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes
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December 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/w...
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Among the revelations of this year's annual TNA deposit. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers.
UK weighed merits of trying to oust ‘depressingly fit’ Robert Mugabe, records show
National Archives papers reveal how officials explored military option to force out Zimbabwe’s ageing leader in 2004
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December 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Among the revelations of this year's annual TNA deposit. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers.
Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
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December 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
"It has been left to an older generation to insist there is something precious worth preserving." 🤨
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Into the void: how Trump killed international law
The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"It has been left to an older generation to insist there is something precious worth preserving." 🤨
www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...
www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...
Military Justice in Modern History: The Adjudication of War and Violence in a Globalising World (in open access), with chapters on Soviet, Japanese, Italian fascist, and French military justice.
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Military Justice in Modern History
Military justice has long played a central role in the adjudication of war and violence throughout the world. It is one of the principal mechanisms used to maintain soldierly discipline as well as to ...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Military Justice in Modern History: The Adjudication of War and Violence in a Globalising World (in open access), with chapters on Soviet, Japanese, Italian fascist, and French military justice.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
intriguing new chapter by Helen Kinsella and Giovanni Mantilla on historical approaches in IR through a case study on the ICRC in N-Ireland
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December 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
intriguing new chapter by Helen Kinsella and Giovanni Mantilla on historical approaches in IR through a case study on the ICRC in N-Ireland
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win.
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win.
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
interesting IHL paradox: Frits Kalshoven - end of WWII in Eur volunteer fight in Indonesia against Japan to uphold NL empire; later sent as Navy legal specialist for indepen negotiations; later mentor to Liesbeth Zegveld, who's now forcing Dutch state/military to answer for war crimes in Indonesia.
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
interesting IHL paradox: Frits Kalshoven - end of WWII in Eur volunteer fight in Indonesia against Japan to uphold NL empire; later sent as Navy legal specialist for indepen negotiations; later mentor to Liesbeth Zegveld, who's now forcing Dutch state/military to answer for war crimes in Indonesia.
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Today three years of work come to fruition with publication of Steve Broadberry's and my book, Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @cepr.org @britishacademy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org 1/4
Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today three years of work come to fruition with publication of Steve Broadberry's and my book, Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @cepr.org @britishacademy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org 1/4
massive congrats to @juliairwin.bsky.social - check out her new book, it looks terrific
academic.oup.com/book/61783
academic.oup.com/book/61783
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
massive congrats to @juliairwin.bsky.social - check out her new book, it looks terrific
academic.oup.com/book/61783
academic.oup.com/book/61783
The Illiberal International: Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order
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The Illiberal International
Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Illiberal International: Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order
www.foreignaffairs.com/china/illibe...
www.foreignaffairs.com/china/illibe...
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An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
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My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
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Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.
Cut off by their banks and even iced out by Alexa, sanctioned ICC staffers remain resolute
International Criminal Court judges and prosecutors are trying to live and work under the same financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.
when Soviets accidentally agreed, during drafting of the Additional Protocols, to grant ICRC full access & facilities in armed conflict, Indians warned them of this ‘serious error,’ given their shared objective to break ICRC ‘monopoly’ as a third-party supervisor (1975).
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
when Soviets accidentally agreed, during drafting of the Additional Protocols, to grant ICRC full access & facilities in armed conflict, Indians warned them of this ‘serious error,’ given their shared objective to break ICRC ‘monopoly’ as a third-party supervisor (1975).