Irene Fernández-Molina
@irenefmolina.bsky.social
Senior lecturer International Relations, University of Exeter | IR Global South, foreign policy, conflicts, international recognition, norms and practices, Maghreb, EU-MENA | Views mine
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24733-irene-fernandezmolina
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24733-irene-fernandezmolina
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👇 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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Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
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C'est ici qu'on peut voir le Colloque : la Palestine et l'Europe, poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines
CAREP Paris - YouTube
Le CAREP Paris est un centre de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales qui contribue à l’élargissement du débat scientifique sur les pays arabes.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
C'est ici qu'on peut voir le Colloque : la Palestine et l'Europe, poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines
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Fascinating new study by @irenefmolina.bsky.social, from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social shows how the EU’s longstanding territorial undifferentiation practices have been successfully challenged through “lawfare”, or legal activism, from the Polisario Front, producing compelling case-law.
EU ambiguity on Western Sahara frozen conflict is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for Sahrawis, study shows
The European Union’s legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of an EU firm position on the no...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Fascinating new study by @irenefmolina.bsky.social, from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social shows how the EU’s longstanding territorial undifferentiation practices have been successfully challenged through “lawfare”, or legal activism, from the Polisario Front, producing compelling case-law.
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📣 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...
@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...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📣 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...
@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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October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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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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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September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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.
share.google/cxrU8KTtrvKH...
My chapter examines the role of international law in the final stages of fighting between the Tamil Tigers and government forces in Sri Lanka.
share.google/cxrU8KTtrvKH...
👇 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
September 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
👇 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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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.
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
September 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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.
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
doi.org/10.1093/migr...
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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
"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
August 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
"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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#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
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
August 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#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
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
Bienvenido CEARC, nuevo centro de estudios sobre el mundo árabe orientado hacia la comunidad investigadora y el público hispanohablante en Europa y América Latina
July 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Bienvenido CEARC, nuevo centro de estudios sobre el mundo árabe orientado hacia la comunidad investigadora y el público hispanohablante en Europa y América Latina
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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.
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
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
June 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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.
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🇹🇳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
“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
June 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🇹🇳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
“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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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:
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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
academic.oup.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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:
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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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
June 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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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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...
@drkevorko.bsky.social
experts.exeter.ac.uk/38375-kevork...
University of Exeter
experts.exeter.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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...
@drkevorko.bsky.social
experts.exeter.ac.uk/38375-kevork...
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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
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/mun...
✍️ Antonio Navarro
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/mun...
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.
www.realinstitutoelcano.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/mun...
✍️ Antonio Navarro
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/mun...
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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.
This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.
May 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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.
This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.
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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
academic.oup.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My colleagues and I tried to grapple with similar questions last year in this @gsqjournal.bsky.social Special Forum academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic....
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🚨 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.
May 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚨 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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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.
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.
May 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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.
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.
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Starmer's Britain.
Not even subtle.
Not even subtle.
May 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Starmer's Britain.
Not even subtle.
Not even subtle.
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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...
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
May 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...