Frederik B. Jerris
fredjerris.bsky.social
Frederik B. Jerris
@fredjerris.bsky.social
PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen | IR | International Order | the African Union | IPS | diplomacy | Previously @ Cambridge and Sciences Po
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Just published in @cspjournal.bsky.social 💡💻⚖️
My article looks at how legal, technical, and military expertise condition the debate over defining and regulating lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)—and how such “epistemic struggles" can produce political effects in global governance.
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems
The regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions...
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April 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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🎄 DEC 23: Greenland

While the Anglo-American tradition believes Santa lives at the North Pole, the Danes locate him in Greenland. Greenland is "weird" in terms of its sovereignty in multiple ways. 🧵 (1/x)
December 23, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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A Festschrift is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It often takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the honoree's colleagues, former pupils, and friends 🙏 @halvardl.bsky.social, Alizera Lahijani and Einar Wigen
December 11, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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My critique of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's colonial history of development is out in the latest issue of International Relations.

Their dichotomy of inclusionary vs. extractive institutions do not survive the history of actually existing capitalism in slavery, imperialism, and settlerism.
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics - Onur Ulas Ince, 2024
This article contributes to theorising colonialism and capitalism within the same analytic frame through a critical engagement with the uses of colonial history...
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November 5, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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How did it become possible for Denmark to "decolonise" Greenland by integration into the colonial metropole during anti-colonial post-Second World War multilateral diplomacy on decolonisation? 
 
Find this question answered in fredjerris.bsky.social 's new EJIR article: t1p.de/n5ytq
April 3, 2024 at 1:50 PM