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Or Rosenboim
@orrosenboim.bsky.social
Historian, writer, baker.
London, Florence and Bologna.
Latest book AIR AND LOVE https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/or-rosenboim/air-and-love/9781529098099
What is planetary politics? My short essay is now published in Global Perspectives, in a really interesting forum.
@ucpress
doi.org/10.1525/gp.2...
What Is “Planetary” Politics?
Is “planetary” a useful concept for political thought? What is the historical trajectory of this idea? The essay reflects on recent literature on planetary and global thinking to consider the challeng...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My article with Arie Dubnov on current federalist visions to end the conflict in Israel-Palestine and past imperial iterations of this idea is now out on Global Perspetives
@ucpress.bsky.social many thanks to @liorerez.bsky.social
for the title.
doi.org/10.1525/gp.2...
Speaking Cantonese: The Pasts and Futures of the Federalist Idea in Israel/Palestine
Since 2012, proposals for cantonization, federalism, and confederalism have gained renewed attention as potential frameworks for addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The resurgence of federal ...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
On Monday, I'll join the Italian national strike for Gaza. But retracting labour is hardly enough. I'll dedicate my next lecture in history at Unibo to discuss imperialism, Nationalism and the histories of Palestine in the 20th century. Most importantly, stop the war! Let all people live in peace.
September 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This week @europeanisa.bsky.social is coming to Bologna and I'll be there too, Great to catch up with friends and colleagues in my city. Come say hello!
August 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social,‬ @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Today I signed a contract with
@princetonupress.bsky.social
to publish my next book, "Global Nature: How Perceptions of Nature Transformed Global Political Visions"! Now I only have to write it...
May 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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📢 New on First View!

Or Rosenboim (@orrosenboim.bsky.social‬) shows that jurist Hans Kelsen’s global thinking is characterised by a multi-scalar logic and an emphasis on positive law as the foundation of political and legal order.

Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s
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May 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is now out on @globalhistjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s
doi.org
May 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I wrote on Barbara Ward for the intellectual history blog of Oxford uni, happy to share these early thoughts about this influential international thinker.
May 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Heartily recommend holding your next academic workshop in Bologna. Wonderful two days discussing prediction and the environment for our @britishacademy.bsky.social ‘Place of Prediction’ workshop, with special thanks to host @orrosenboim.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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April 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A morning in the archives of Unibo with my global history students, looking at documents on foreign students (inc. Jewish, Greeks, Iranians, and other refugees).
April 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Someone recalled a pretty niche book I took from the library (on spaceship earth) and now I really want to know who they are.
March 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
On my way to Oxford for the week... (if the train will actually depart!)
February 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I've written the first 1000 words of my new book. They may be edited away one day, but the page is not blank anymore!
February 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My keynote at the @inthiseui.bsky.social conf today will explore my new work with Arie Dubnov on the links between contemporary leftist ideas for confederation in Israel/Palestine and their imperial intellectual roots. Looking forward to the conversation!
January 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
At the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum, so many beautiful artefacts from Samarkand, that brought to life the multi-cultural, fascinating city I've written about in my book Air and Love.
January 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Oxfording this week
January 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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News! We would like to welcome four new members to our International Board! @xinfan.bsky.social (University of Cambridge), Ployjai Pintobtang พลอยใจ ปิ่นตบแต่ง (Chiang Mai University; มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่), @orrosenboim.bsky.social (Università di Bologna), and Tomohito Baji 馬路智仁 (University of Tokyo; 東京大学)
January 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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As we approach our tenth anniversary we thought it was a good moment to update our "Aims and Scope" to better reflect how conversations in the field have developed over the last decade. The new version is now live, read it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...
January 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I'm happy to join the international board of @global-ih.bsky.social as the journal celebrates a decade of fascinating research!
As we approach our tenth anniversary we thought it was a good moment to update our "Aims and Scope" to better reflect how conversations in the field have developed over the last decade. The new version is now live, read it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...
January 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The urge to cross the barriers, sit down, open a book and read is real.
January 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Off to London for a conference on (dis)order at the @britishacademy.bsky.social looking forward to talk about global constitutionalism as a way to order the world..
January 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I asked chatgpt to design my ideal room according to my online profile and I love the library-kitchen-cakes combination!
January 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM