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Time to get back to posting on social media! It's been a productive summer so far, from reading and writing, to starting up research projects, to public engagement and running summer programs. I'm looking forward sharing what I've been up to, which I'll be doing over the next week!
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@ProfPaulPoast writes that reliance on privately built technology gives firms like SpaceX new ways to undercut governments’ control over military force, as Ukraine has learned.
But states, he argues, still hold the ultimate means of violence.
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IR Book of the Week! "Bringing Order to Anarchy" by Charles Kupchan.
The post-Cold War world order is gone, but what will replace it? If the US doesn't step up, the end result will be a multi-polar order with no country at the helm. While one can take issue with chaos=anarchy or whether the US must lead the international system, the book captures well the notion that the unipolar moment is truly over.
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People who read World Politics Review already know what happens next, before it happens. They've read the piece everyone will be citing tomorrow. Start reading for free.
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As columnist @ProfPaulPoast writes, the most fundamental obstacle to counting the war dead is the fog of war itself. Battlefield chaos obscures losses, and it is often unclear whether a death came from combat or from famine and disease made worse by conflict.
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The latest version of the IR Data Generator is live!
Version 0.3 fixes some bugs and adds a Country-Year option. Try it out and let me know features you would like to see included in future versions (note that we're still in the beta phase -- hence, it's not even 1.0 -- so lots of opportunities to add) or bugs if something seems off.
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ICYMI: My latest @WPReview piece generated a WIDE range of responses over the weekend (and I'm not sure whether folks expressing the most extreme versions of those responses actually read the piece). But it's an important topic that needs to be addressed.
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Over the past three years, I've written quite a bit about the War in Gaza. But I hadn't addressed the "Genocide Question" directly...until now.
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But because Israel was attacked on October 7 and Hamas continued to attack Israel following October 7, the civilian deaths over the entirety of the War in Gaza occurred within the context of a military campaign against another combatant.
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This does leave open the possibility that, as we learn more about the operations which took place, it could be found that there was a distinct episode of clear genocide that took place DURING the War in Gaza (think of Srebrenica massacre within the Bosnian War). But it is difficult to label the War in Gaza as an act of genocide.
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Genocide law separates people killed for their identity from those killed for military objectives.
Nobel Peace laureate Navi Pillay’s U.N. commission found Israel’s war in Gaza crossed that line, citing in part Israeli officials’ own statements, @ProfPaulPoast writes.
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Nice piece by @ProfPaulPoast that cites my WPR column on how the Genocide Convention distinguishes genocidal intent from "military necessity" — just as its drafters intended after World War II, as @dirkmoses has shown.
The language of "as such" was no accident.
Was the War in Gaza a Genocide? In light of Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize, I explore that question in my latest for @WPReview. The short answer: it's a legally high bar to cross, deliberately (and perhaps unreasonably) so.
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