Maryam Deloffre
@mzdeloffre.bsky.social
Associate Professor International Affairs and
Director Humanitarian Action Initiative, GWU. Research - NGO and humanitarian accountability, NGOs, standard-setting, humanitarian financing, localization. Rock climbing, baking, playing tennis badly🐶🇺🇸🇫🇷
Director Humanitarian Action Initiative, GWU. Research - NGO and humanitarian accountability, NGOs, standard-setting, humanitarian financing, localization. Rock climbing, baking, playing tennis badly🐶🇺🇸🇫🇷
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Darfur genocide took place at peak early 2000s American primacy, current Sudan genocide being done by forces backed by top US ally UAE, but sure let’s blame it on “post-American world” SMDH
In Sudan, @anneapplebaum reports, the post-American world has already arrived. A brutal civil war has left a vacuum—and no international organizations, no diplomats, and certainly no Americans are coming to fill it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth
Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Darfur genocide took place at peak early 2000s American primacy, current Sudan genocide being done by forces backed by top US ally UAE, but sure let’s blame it on “post-American world” SMDH
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Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#polisky
#polisky
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September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#polisky
#polisky
Happy to share my new article, "Brokering #Localization: Country-based Pooled Funds in Humanitarian Assistance," out in @journalpad.bsky.social. If you're interested in #intermediaries, #PooledFunds, #localization or #brokerage read it open access here! doi.org/10.1002/pad....
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Brokering Localization: Country‐Based Pooled Funds in Humanitarian Assistance
This article analyzes Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) to identify types of brokerage models and their effects on localization. CBPFs are intermediaries in the aid chain connecting donors to implem...
doi.org
August 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Happy to share my new article, "Brokering #Localization: Country-based Pooled Funds in Humanitarian Assistance," out in @journalpad.bsky.social. If you're interested in #intermediaries, #PooledFunds, #localization or #brokerage read it open access here! doi.org/10.1002/pad....
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Book launch event! Please join me and Sigrid Quack on September 3 for a discussion of our edited volume, A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics (Oxford University Press).
See the book here: academic.oup.com/book/59913?l...
Event details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-relation...
See the book here: academic.oup.com/book/59913?l...
Event details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-relation...
A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics
Join us for the book launch of: A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics.
www.eventbrite.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Book launch event! Please join me and Sigrid Quack on September 3 for a discussion of our edited volume, A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics (Oxford University Press).
See the book here: academic.oup.com/book/59913?l...
Event details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-relation...
See the book here: academic.oup.com/book/59913?l...
Event details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-relation...
Insightful and important piece on the rise and fall of NGOs by @sarahbush.bsky.social and @jenniferhadden.bsky.social. Sobering analysis of the factors that have led to the waning power of civil society worldwide.
“Overall, the NGO sector has less political opportunity and capacity than it once had,” write @sarahbush.bsky.social and @jenniferhadden.bsky.social. “The result is an end to the era of NGOs—a boon to autocratic governments that have seen their advocacy as a threat.”
The End of the Age of NGOs?
How civil society lost its post–Cold War power.
www.foreignaffairs.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Insightful and important piece on the rise and fall of NGOs by @sarahbush.bsky.social and @jenniferhadden.bsky.social. Sobering analysis of the factors that have led to the waning power of civil society worldwide.
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“They bombed us. They shot many people. Some fled and others died.”
In South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, civilians recount army airstrikes and mass displacement as a long-flawed peace deal collapses. ⬇️
In South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, civilians recount army airstrikes and mass displacement as a long-flawed peace deal collapses. ⬇️
Army barrel bombs spark exodus as South Sudan peace deal crumbles
Civilians face brutal attacks and dire straits in displacement camps.
buff.ly
May 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“They bombed us. They shot many people. Some fled and others died.”
In South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, civilians recount army airstrikes and mass displacement as a long-flawed peace deal collapses. ⬇️
In South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, civilians recount army airstrikes and mass displacement as a long-flawed peace deal collapses. ⬇️
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✨ Finally out - thanks to Maryam and Sigrid! Great pleasure to be part of this collaborative project and see the edited volume "A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition" available open access ✨
My chapter: academic.oup.com/book/59913/c...
My chapter: academic.oup.com/book/59913/c...
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
✨ Finally out - thanks to Maryam and Sigrid! Great pleasure to be part of this collaborative project and see the edited volume "A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition" available open access ✨
My chapter: academic.oup.com/book/59913/c...
My chapter: academic.oup.com/book/59913/c...
Will do a proper thread soon but thank you to @ninareiners.bsky.social @george3mitchell.bsky.social
@hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social and so many others for their important contributions and for going with the flow as we worked on this volume together!
@hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social and so many others for their important contributions and for going with the flow as we worked on this volume together!
Happy to share that our book is out! A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition (OUP) theorizes NGOs through their relations to understand their power & effects in global politics. TY to all contributing authors! Open access!
academic.oup.com/book/59913
academic.oup.com/book/59913
A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition
Abstract. How do nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) create the spaces in which they act, despite all the odds against them? How do NGOs seem to meet the
academic.oup.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Will do a proper thread soon but thank you to @ninareiners.bsky.social @george3mitchell.bsky.social
@hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social and so many others for their important contributions and for going with the flow as we worked on this volume together!
@hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social and so many others for their important contributions and for going with the flow as we worked on this volume together!
Happy to share that our book is out! A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition (OUP) theorizes NGOs through their relations to understand their power & effects in global politics. TY to all contributing authors! Open access!
academic.oup.com/book/59913
academic.oup.com/book/59913
A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition
Abstract. How do nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) create the spaces in which they act, despite all the odds against them? How do NGOs seem to meet the
academic.oup.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy to share that our book is out! A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition (OUP) theorizes NGOs through their relations to understand their power & effects in global politics. TY to all contributing authors! Open access!
academic.oup.com/book/59913
academic.oup.com/book/59913
Typically, the US would have deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) by now as it did in Syria/Turkey. This would include search & rescue teams, heavy machinery to remove rubble & emergency shelter & healthcare. China & India deployed SAR teams on Sat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...
Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar (Gift Article)
While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Typically, the US would have deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) by now as it did in Syria/Turkey. This would include search & rescue teams, heavy machinery to remove rubble & emergency shelter & healthcare. China & India deployed SAR teams on Sat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...
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You might know him for his work on climate change but @busbyj2.bsky.social wrote the book on how PEPFAR became a life-saving reality.
Do not forget what is stake with these cuts to foreign aid. abcnews.go.com/Health/poten...
Potential foreign aid cuts could lead to millions of HIV infections, deaths: Study
Potential foreign aid cuts could lead to millions of HIV deaths and "soaring" rates of infections around the world, a new study published Wednesday evening found.
abcnews.go.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
You might know him for his work on climate change but @busbyj2.bsky.social wrote the book on how PEPFAR became a life-saving reality.
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We now have an issue "The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions" tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/2... . Look at novel contributions on #youth as governance tool, #children's exclusion from politics and #activism strategies 👇
March 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We now have an issue "The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions" tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/2... . Look at novel contributions on #youth as governance tool, #children's exclusion from politics and #activism strategies 👇
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Bilan, dégâts, aide internationale : ce que l'on sait du séisme en Birmanie et Thaïlande
Bilan, dégâts, aide internationale : ce que l'on sait du séisme en Birmanie et Thaïlande
Le plus puissant séisme à frapper la Birmanie depuis des décennies a tué plus de 1 000 personnes dans ce pays en pleine guerre civile et fait des morts en Thaïlande voisine. Les dommages sont considérables dans toute la région. L'aide internationale commence à être acheminée. Le point sur la situation.
f24.my
March 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Bilan, dégâts, aide internationale : ce que l'on sait du séisme en Birmanie et Thaïlande
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As the full extent of the damage and official casualty figures begin to emerge following the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar, Myanmar Red Cross teams are racing against time to provide critical support.
March 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
As the full extent of the damage and official casualty figures begin to emerge following the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar, Myanmar Red Cross teams are racing against time to provide critical support.
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Noelle waves hi 👋
Still looking for an adopter (or even a new foster in the DC area)
Still looking for an adopter (or even a new foster in the DC area)
March 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Noelle waves hi 👋
Still looking for an adopter (or even a new foster in the DC area)
Still looking for an adopter (or even a new foster in the DC area)
Congratulations, Alvina! This is a terrific article that examines how personal and professional biographies shape the ability of these actors to connect, translate between, and lead in and across several professions. It offers important insights on how global governance is mobilized. #RelationalIR
My latest article on my current research project on UN special rapporteurs is finally out with @risjnl.bsky.social!
I develop the notion of the plural professional, or actors who practice several professions at the same time & not necessarily harmoniously.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I develop the notion of the plural professional, or actors who practice several professions at the same time & not necessarily harmoniously.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence
www.cambridge.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Congratulations, Alvina! This is a terrific article that examines how personal and professional biographies shape the ability of these actors to connect, translate between, and lead in and across several professions. It offers important insights on how global governance is mobilized. #RelationalIR
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Take a look at this opinion piece I just published with @apaczynska.bsky.social on the complexities of accountability for international cooperation and US foreign aid thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Take a look at this opinion piece I just published with @apaczynska.bsky.social on the complexities of accountability for international cooperation and US foreign aid thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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Are you a medical practitioner with at least two years of clinical work experience, anywhere in the world, interested in becoming a humanitarian aid worker? Admissions to MSF's Global Health & Humanitarian Medicine (GHHM) course are now open, until April 21, 2025. Course fees are lower for LMICs!
Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine course
A part-time course run by MSF to provide affordable, global access to high-quality education in tropical medicine
msf.org.uk
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Are you a medical practitioner with at least two years of clinical work experience, anywhere in the world, interested in becoming a humanitarian aid worker? Admissions to MSF's Global Health & Humanitarian Medicine (GHHM) course are now open, until April 21, 2025. Course fees are lower for LMICs!
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This is Turbo. He hopped everywhere as a puppy and still does as an adult. Because happy hops are not a phase, they are a lifestyle. 13/10 (IG: corgiturbopaws)
March 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is Turbo. He hopped everywhere as a puppy and still does as an adult. Because happy hops are not a phase, they are a lifestyle. 13/10 (IG: corgiturbopaws)
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Humanitarian aid is under attack. But where are the attacks coming from? In this short piece, I argue that one should distinguish between two different critiques of humanitarian aid. Progressive (Marxist, decolonial, feminist..) critiques on the one hand, and far-right critiques on the other.
🔎In this article entitled "How not to mistake the enemy? Two critiques of humanitarian action", Joël Glasman (@glasmanjo.bsky.social) discusses two historical critiques of humanitarianism that should not be confused: the far-right (reactionary) critique and the progressive critique.
How not to mistake the enemy? Two critiques of humanitarian action
The Trump administration’s attacks on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) since 20 January 2025 have revealed the anti-humanitarian ideology of the far right ‒ that is, the...
msf-crash.org
March 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Humanitarian aid is under attack. But where are the attacks coming from? In this short piece, I argue that one should distinguish between two different critiques of humanitarian aid. Progressive (Marxist, decolonial, feminist..) critiques on the one hand, and far-right critiques on the other.
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As scholars who study humanitarian aid, Korbel Prof @chenr.bsky.social and GW Prof @mzdeloffre.bsky.social, write that we are seeing not just a crisis of funding, but also one that jeopardizes the credibility of the entire global system that provides this lifesaving assistance.
Defending humanitarian aid in terms of national security obscures its real purpose
Humanitarian aid is based on empathy and the recognition that everyone has a right to live with dignity.
theconversation.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As scholars who study humanitarian aid, Korbel Prof @chenr.bsky.social and GW Prof @mzdeloffre.bsky.social, write that we are seeing not just a crisis of funding, but also one that jeopardizes the credibility of the entire global system that provides this lifesaving assistance.
Informative analysis of the structural issues in the humanitarian sector & why the UN & big NGOs shouldn't dominate reforms.
IMO the main pathway to reform is "Establish an independent functional review of the system" a system wide, joint eval post-Rwanda is what led to major reforms in the 90s. 🧵
IMO the main pathway to reform is "Establish an independent functional review of the system" a system wide, joint eval post-Rwanda is what led to major reforms in the 90s. 🧵
Opinion | The problem isn’t proposed reforms, but who is delivering them. The leadership needed to revamp humanitarianism must come from elsewhere.
Reforming humanitarianism can’t be left to today’s decision-makers
The problem isn’t a “humanitarian reset” but who is pushing the button. The leadership needed to revamp the system must come from elsewhere.
buff.ly
March 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Informative analysis of the structural issues in the humanitarian sector & why the UN & big NGOs shouldn't dominate reforms.
IMO the main pathway to reform is "Establish an independent functional review of the system" a system wide, joint eval post-Rwanda is what led to major reforms in the 90s. 🧵
IMO the main pathway to reform is "Establish an independent functional review of the system" a system wide, joint eval post-Rwanda is what led to major reforms in the 90s. 🧵
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BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
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This is Elly. She was wondering if that lap was taken, and if she could perhaps sit on it. Promises she won't take up too much space. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday
(IG: elly___1206)
(IG: elly___1206)
March 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is Elly. She was wondering if that lap was taken, and if she could perhaps sit on it. Promises she won't take up too much space. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday
(IG: elly___1206)
(IG: elly___1206)
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Informative piece that covers a number of important points about humanitarian aid. The links show the human consequences of the US' drastic cuts as well as the broader context, which includes many European donors also cutting aid.
@mzdeloffre.bsky.social (GWU) and Chen Reis (University of Denver) published, Defending humanitarian aid in terms of national security obscures its real purpose, in @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/defending-hu...
theconversation.com/defending-hu...
Defending humanitarian aid in terms of national security obscures its real purpose
Humanitarian aid is based on empathy and the recognition that everyone has a right to live with dignity.
theconversation.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Informative piece that covers a number of important points about humanitarian aid. The links show the human consequences of the US' drastic cuts as well as the broader context, which includes many European donors also cutting aid.