Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
Boyd van Dijk
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published last month
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"While he has been vociferous on Russia’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty, van Middelaar has said very little of similar crimes in the Middle East; on the world-historic challenge of decarbonization, the silence is near absolute."
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appearing next month
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looks like a very useful IR teaching tool
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when the Chilean junta framed its repression as an 'internal war' - and thereby invoked IHL, going so far as to frame detention facilities' entrance doors with 'POW' signs and replicating the correspondence card system of the 1949 POW Convention (1973).
great opportunity for Swiss phds and postdocs in int law
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came out last month - seems fascinating!
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Boyd van Dijk
in weeks before coup, ICRC in Chile proposed that Chilean Red Cross launch a massive information campaign on the Geneva Conventions. Chilean humanitarians opposed it, fearing it would worsen fears about upcoming civil war - a perennial problem of peacetime IHL dissemination.
really important message - @charlicarpenter.bsky.social
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very interesting new article - dual use as a political technology of contemporary military violence
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The latest Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty ended without agreement. But that doesn’t mean it didn’t accomplish anything.
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Recent wars are marked by a political technology of “dual use” that blurs military and non-military worlds to legitimise military violence. This artic…
