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Gaza: Trapped by the International Order

March 5, 2026 by
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The war in Gaza has given rise to unprecedented protests in the West and divided the international community between nations supporting and condemning Israel. It has also led to countries like South Africa and Nicaragua initiating legal action against Israel that has resulted in equally unprecedented indictments. But despite dividing Western societies and the international order in hitherto unimaginable ways, popular mobilisation against the war remains far greater in Western Europe and North America than elsewhere.[1] It is true that demonstrators in the West are Continue reading →

French Responses to the Bosnian Crisis: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and Memory

March 3, 2026 by
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Abstract This article explores the use of multidirectional memories in humanitarian and interventionist discourses in France during the first half of the 1990s. It does this through two sets of responses to mass violence: from 1991 to 1995 following the break-up of Yugoslavia, and during 1994 in Rwanda. While the Bosnian crisis, as many called it at the time, extended over years, the genocide in Rwanda took place over the course of a hundred days. In both cases, however, outside responses consisting of emergency relief Continue reading → Continue reading →