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23 May

...“homo homini lupus”) which masks as order its core logic of conquest and domination. Trump’s dystopian visions (from Greenland to Panama, from Eastern Ukraine to Palestine), constrained less by common values and normative commitments than by realpolitik considerations, do not so much disrupt the international order as they lay bare the underlying architecture that has long sustained it. As such, Morocco’s intensifying integration of Western Sahara into its economy, premised on landgrab and segregation and facilitated by European complicity and rhetorical appeals to “development”, reflects international law’s systemic inability to...
23.05.25 | |

08 Dec

This week on Opinio Juris, we continued a few conversations from last week. Kevin Jon Heller clarified his argument about the retroactive acceptance of the ICC’s jurisdiction, and challenged the assumption that Palestine was not a state before last week’s UNGA vote. Deborah Pearlstein advanced three reasons for the importance of Jeh Johnson’s recent speech on the conditions for calling an end to the war on terror. Continuing on the war on terror, Kevin expressed concern over the extension of US targeting policy in Afghanistan to “children with potential hostile...
08.12.12 | |

08 Oct

...peoples.  Colonial genocides have been committed in the global geography of the colonized world. Colonial genocides are not the make of states against minorities. By contrast, empires, colonial companies, and occupying states or settler colonial states have perpetrated colonial genocides against indigenous peoples. We can count among them the colonial genocide in Palestine. As it has happened for the past five centuries, the Palestinian Genocide shows that European settler colonialism continues to perform one of its historical tasks: genocide. Empires and former empires like the US, the UK, and France...
08.10.24 | |