Irene Fernández-Molina

Huge thanks to you, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, for organising such a stimulating workshop – my head is still spinning from excitement!

Over the past two days, @kaoutarghi.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, to rethink the concepts of 'state' and 'regime' in the Middle East and North Africa.

Iranian scholar friends, who would like to have their name passed on to media outlets (print or air)?

C'est aujourd'hui que sort l'Atlas du Maghreb aux éditions Autrement ! Avec Anne Lascaux et @gbalavoine, nous proposons une synthèse des principaux enjeux de cette région, de la Mauritanie à la Libye 🗺️🇲🇷🇱🇾🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳🇪🇭

The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience.

What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

Looking forward to next week's discussion of @jheathershaw.bsky.social's excellent and important book, Indulging Kleptocracy, co-authored with Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne, at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social!

Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.

Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...

CAREP Paris - YouTube Le CAREP Paris est un centre de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales qui contribue à l’élargissement du débat scientifique sur les pays arabes.

C'est ici qu'on peut voir le Colloque : la Palestine et l'Europe, poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines

EU ambiguity on Western Sahara frozen conflict is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for Sahrawis, study shows The European Union’s legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of an EU firm position on the no...

Fascinating new study by @irenefmolina.bsky.social, from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social shows how the EU’s longstanding territorial undifferentiation practices have been successfully challenged through “lawfare”, or legal activism, from the Polisario Front, producing compelling case-law.

📣 Call for Papers: Migration Power Europe

@irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying!

🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov
ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

هل سيفي ملك #المغرب بوعوده بخلق وظائف وتحسين الرعاية الصحية والتعليم؟ وهل ستحقق حكومته أيضا في استخدام القوة القاتلة وتُفرج عن المتظاهرين السلميين المعتقلين؟ #GenZ212

More here:

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Contested States in War and Law Contested States in War and Law; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together perspectives from a range of disciplines, this book explores the precarious situation of s...

Open access and fresh off the press, this volume explores the connections between secessionists, international law, and war.
My chapter examines the role of international law in the final stages of fighting between the Tamil Tigers and government forces in Sri Lanka.

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@cais-exeter.bsky.social

In open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

👇 New article in @govandopp.bsky.social where Alfonso Casani, @fcolin.bsky.social and I bring together our theoretical and empirical work on foreign policy, opposition and authoritarianism through the extreme case of Morocco and Israel's wars on Gaza, and with material from field research since 2007

Is irregular migration really a recent phenomenon? Drawing on colonial archives, Y. Benhadda traces #lhrig, a Maghrebi term for irregular border crossing, back to colonial Morocco, challenging dominant narratives of crisis and unprecedentedness in today’s migration debates.

doi.org/10.1093/migr...

@yazidbenhadda.bsky.social

New on #FirstView -

"Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza" - cup.org/4mF9E9x

- Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social

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#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social -

Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza - cup.org/4mF9E9x

- Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social

#FirstView

Bienvenido CEARC, nuevo centro de estudios sobre el mundo árabe orientado hacia la comunidad investigadora y el público hispanohablante en Europa y América Latina

Really happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD yesterday! Thanks to my supervisors @irenefmolina.bsky.social and @briegp.bsky.social for their support throughout the journey and to examiners Martin Thomas and @fionaadamson.bsky.social for their generous and constructive feedback.

🇹🇳I’m thrilled to share our new article with @mhlarramendi.bsky.social‬ & Antonio Alfonso:
“Voting with dissatisfaction: An analysis of the 2019 parliamentary election in Tunisia"
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‪@democratization.bsky.social‬
#Tunisia #elections #populism @pablodeolavide.upo.es

Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices Abstract. Despite its sophistication, most of the literature on the securitization of migration remains presentist in the sense that it has not yet truly i

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out:
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Israel wages war invoking “self-defence”.Nuclear armed Israel/US attack Iran to stop it making nuclear weapons it wasn’t making.Europeans call for diplomacy without condemning the attack that killed it.Russia opposes the violation of int law, while doing far worse in Ukraine.As Orwellian as it gets

Delighted to report that our colleague Kevork Oskanian will be a permanent member of CAIS faculty from September! Congratulations, Kevork!

@drkevorko.bsky.social

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El hambre como arma de guerra en la era de la abundancia Thomas Keneally, el autor de ‘La lista de Schindler’, investigó las hambrunas a lo largo de la historia y llegó a la conclusión de que todas las víctimas comparten el mismo sufrimiento

Esto de @galtares.bsky.social

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Mundial 2030: la puesta de largo sobre el césped del soft power marroquí El Mundial 2030 representa para Marruecos una oportunidad estratégica para proyectar su poder blando a escala regional e internacional.

Los acontecimientos deportivos de primer nivel como forma de ejercer el poder blando en las relaciones internacionales: el caso de Marruecos y el Mundial de fútbol 2030.
✍️ Antonio Navarro
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/mun...

An overhead photo showing 100s of people corralled by fencing and barbed wire into a tiny area. Three security people in high vis on the other side of the gates.

NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels.

This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order: Furthering a Research Agenda Abstract. This article serves as the introduction to this Special Forum on Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order. The articles in this Spe

My colleagues and I tried to grapple with similar questions last year in this @gsqjournal.bsky.social Special Forum academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic....