Giovanni Mantilla
@giofabman.bsky.social
Associate Professor, POLIS, Cambridge University, Fellow Christ’s College & Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. International relations/history/law/diplomacy #IHL. Colombiano 🇨🇴🏳️🌈🇬🇧
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Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age By Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and Apolline Taillandier, Newnham College Inspired by…
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age By Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and Apolline Taillandier, Newnham College Inspired by…
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age By Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and Apolline Taillandier, Newnham College Inspired by developments in artificial intelligence, space engineering, and genetics, discussion of post-human visions of the future is now widespread, especially in the tech world. This reflective essay analyses various ideological configurations of “transhumanism,” a body of thought centred on the pursuit of radical human improvement through technoscientific intervention.
politicalsciencenow.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age By Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and Apolline Taillandier, Newnham College Inspired by…
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age By Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and Apolline Taillandier, Newnham College Inspired by…
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The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
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Reorienting #Climate litigation in a time of backlash, shrinking civic space & challenges to judicial independence
Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash - Nature Climate Change
Restrictions on civil society may drive climate activists to shift from protest to litigation. However, challenges to judicial independence, deregulation and anti-climate litigation mean that activist...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reorienting #Climate litigation in a time of backlash, shrinking civic space & challenges to judicial independence
Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social
link.springer.com/journal/1155...
Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵
link.springer.com/journal/1155...
Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵
The Review of International Organizations
The Review of International Organizations publishes original scientific contributions in the entire field of international political economy, with a focus on ...
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June 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social
link.springer.com/journal/1155...
Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵
link.springer.com/journal/1155...
Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵
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Extremely excited for this, and what a beautiful poster design!
I’ll be speaking on the United Nations panel with amazing speakers, including @drmargottudor.bsky.social ❤️
I’ll be speaking on the United Nations panel with amazing speakers, including @drmargottudor.bsky.social ❤️
Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Extremely excited for this, and what a beautiful poster design!
I’ll be speaking on the United Nations panel with amazing speakers, including @drmargottudor.bsky.social ❤️
I’ll be speaking on the United Nations panel with amazing speakers, including @drmargottudor.bsky.social ❤️
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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👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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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@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
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October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
A new, forthcoming article on the law of armed conflict, or IHL, and US and UK nuclear policy change.
(It’s always exciting to get work published; a personal reaction of this type, by a diplomat with such experience, is surreal)
(It’s always exciting to get work published; a personal reaction of this type, by a diplomat with such experience, is surreal)
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A new, forthcoming article on the law of armed conflict, or IHL, and US and UK nuclear policy change.
(It’s always exciting to get work published; a personal reaction of this type, by a diplomat with such experience, is surreal)
(It’s always exciting to get work published; a personal reaction of this type, by a diplomat with such experience, is surreal)
How did the US become what it has become? Serious answers only.
October 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
How did the US become what it has become? Serious answers only.
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Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...
Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship | Christs College Cambridge
www.christs.cam.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...
Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...
Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship | Christs College Cambridge
www.christs.cam.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...
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Truly delighted that our (co-edited with Ralf Emmers) @austjia.bsky.social Special Issue on ‘Coalition-Building and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in the Indo-Pacific’ is now out (Vol 79, Issue 4), with many articles Open Access!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/7...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/7...
July 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Truly delighted that our (co-edited with Ralf Emmers) @austjia.bsky.social Special Issue on ‘Coalition-Building and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in the Indo-Pacific’ is now out (Vol 79, Issue 4), with many articles Open Access!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/7...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/7...
Upon the public announcement of one embarrassing British international legal position today, here’s another, historical (1964) one I just retrieved from the UK national archives. So-when did the position change, re UNSC resolutions’ binding character? Or am I missing some lawyerly nuance?
July 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Upon the public announcement of one embarrassing British international legal position today, here’s another, historical (1964) one I just retrieved from the UK national archives. So-when did the position change, re UNSC resolutions’ binding character? Or am I missing some lawyerly nuance?
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Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say, and likely only set it back "months" (while also possibly empowering hardliners and radicalizing the regime and sparking a rally-around-the-flag effect and)
Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an e...
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June 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say, and likely only set it back "months" (while also possibly empowering hardliners and radicalizing the regime and sparking a rally-around-the-flag effect and)
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Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.
June 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.
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"The [] rise of authoritarianism at home is precipitating a kind of international authoritarianism, in which the American president can unleash the most powerful military the world has ever known on a whim."
My latest, in @nytimes.com:
The Danger of an Unrestrained President to the World
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
The Danger of an Unrestrained President to the World
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Opinion | The Danger of an Unrestrained President to the World
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"The [] rise of authoritarianism at home is precipitating a kind of international authoritarianism, in which the American president can unleash the most powerful military the world has ever known on a whim."
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observer.co.uk/news/interna...
👉🏻“The rules of international law have not changed since Iraq. (They allow military force …) in two circumstances: if authorised by the Security Council (…) or in “exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs” .
👉🏻“The rules of international law have not changed since Iraq. (They allow military force …) in two circumstances: if authorised by the Security Council (…) or in “exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs” .
Philippe Sands: International law does not permit regime ...
Diplomacy needs to continue and the rules followed, says barrister and professor of law Philippe Sands
observer.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
👉🏻“The rules of international law have not changed since Iraq. (They allow military force …) in two circumstances: if authorised by the Security Council (…) or in “exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs” .
👉🏻“The rules of international law have not changed since Iraq. (They allow military force …) in two circumstances: if authorised by the Security Council (…) or in “exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs” .
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The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said the United States strikes on Iran are not against international law.
He is completely wrong.
No Security Council authorisation. No actual or imminent armed attack triggering self-defence under the UN Charter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWa...
He is completely wrong.
No Security Council authorisation. No actual or imminent armed attack triggering self-defence under the UN Charter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWa...
Iran must not develop a nuclear weapon: NATO chief Mark Rutte
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said the United States strikes on Iran are not against international law.
He is completely wrong.
No Security Council authorisation. No actual or imminent armed attack triggering self-defence under the UN Charter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWa...
He is completely wrong.
No Security Council authorisation. No actual or imminent armed attack triggering self-defence under the UN Charter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWa...
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This @justsecurity.org post on the illegality of Israel's attack on Iran by @adhaque.bsky.social is brilliant.
It dismantles the 2 arguments for Israel's position that have created the false appearance of a legal debate, where none is apposite.
Israel launched an illegal aggression.
It dismantles the 2 arguments for Israel's position that have created the false appearance of a legal debate, where none is apposite.
Israel launched an illegal aggression.
Indefensible: Israel’s Unlawful Attack on Iran
By Professor @adhaque.bsky.social
#UNCharter #UNSC
Part of our ongoing series on the #IsraelIranWar
By Professor @adhaque.bsky.social
#UNCharter #UNSC
Part of our ongoing series on the #IsraelIranWar
Indefensible: Israel’s Unlawful Attack on Iran
Legal scholars assess how the UN Charter and international law applies to Israel's strike on Iran's nuclear and other facilities.
www.justsecurity.org
June 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This @justsecurity.org post on the illegality of Israel's attack on Iran by @adhaque.bsky.social is brilliant.
It dismantles the 2 arguments for Israel's position that have created the false appearance of a legal debate, where none is apposite.
Israel launched an illegal aggression.
It dismantles the 2 arguments for Israel's position that have created the false appearance of a legal debate, where none is apposite.
Israel launched an illegal aggression.
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"The question is not whether starving people should receive aid from GHF or be left to die. That binary is the product manufactured by Israel's famine & dire humanitarian crisis, in which existing rights-based aid infrastructures were deliberately obstructed." www.ejiltalk.org/privatizing-...
Privatizing Aid: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Affair
Israel and its allies have introduced quite a number of legal and political configurations over the past 19 months that even the most creative Jessup moot court problem writers would not dare to imagi...
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June 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"The question is not whether starving people should receive aid from GHF or be left to die. That binary is the product manufactured by Israel's famine & dire humanitarian crisis, in which existing rights-based aid infrastructures were deliberately obstructed." www.ejiltalk.org/privatizing-...
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Israel has submitted something like an Article 51 letter to the UN for its attack on Iran.
The letter both alludes to self-defense and an ongoing armed conflict with Iran.
Claims it is responding to an "imminent threat" from Iran.
US response to Israel's 1981 attack on Osirak is instructive:
The letter both alludes to self-defense and an ongoing armed conflict with Iran.
Claims it is responding to an "imminent threat" from Iran.
US response to Israel's 1981 attack on Osirak is instructive:
June 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Israel has submitted something like an Article 51 letter to the UN for its attack on Iran.
The letter both alludes to self-defense and an ongoing armed conflict with Iran.
Claims it is responding to an "imminent threat" from Iran.
US response to Israel's 1981 attack on Osirak is instructive:
The letter both alludes to self-defense and an ongoing armed conflict with Iran.
Claims it is responding to an "imminent threat" from Iran.
US response to Israel's 1981 attack on Osirak is instructive:
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Check out this new @ejir.bsky.social article by Zikun Yang, who's writing richer histories and theory abt China's performance across key areas of multilateralism @campolis.bsky.social based on primary research in multiple countries and languages. She's on the academic job market too - hire her!
Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)
The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis)satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972 - Zikun Yang, 2025
How does status dissatisfaction shape a state’s behavior? Existing literature suggests that mistreatment and misconception by the great powers could elicit a st...
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April 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Check out this new @ejir.bsky.social article by Zikun Yang, who's writing richer histories and theory abt China's performance across key areas of multilateralism @campolis.bsky.social based on primary research in multiple countries and languages. She's on the academic job market too - hire her!
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🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places
Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?
@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵
osf.io/rtymv
Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?
@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵
osf.io/rtymv
June 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places
Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?
@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵
osf.io/rtymv
Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?
@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵
osf.io/rtymv