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Narrating the non-European nation-state

December 17, 2025 by
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Narrating the non-European nation-state[1] André Dao, Postdoctoral research fellow, Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, Melbourne Law School In Antony Anghie’s Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law, the chapter on the League of Nations’ Mandate System turns on a key analogy. ‘The great literature of modernity’, writes Anghie, was ‘preoccupied with mapping the interior, with tracing and examining the workings of an inner consciousness.’ Meanwhile, international jurists, including those at the League, ‘sensed that access to the interior of the state Continue reading →

From a Right of Self-Defence to the Fact of Conquest

June 7, 2025 by
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Peter Hallward[1] This article has been updated by the author with a new post-script, finalized on 17th June.* On 7 October 2023 some arguments began that continue to this day. Did the Hamas-led attack on Israel come out of the blue or was it a response to decades of domination and dispossession? Was it an incomprehensible act of savagery or a long-awaited prison break? A well-timed strike at a complacent oppressor or a counter-productive mistake? Were its intended targets military or civilian or both? Were Continue reading →

Uncertain Solidarities: The Politics of an Impartial Human Rights Stance in Occupied Palestine

November 8, 2024 by
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Protective accompaniment is a non-violent intervention strategy used by international civil society organisations working in the occupied Palestinian territories. This article explores one accompaniment organisation’s discourse and practice of human rights based impartiality. Firstly, the universalising rhetoric of human rights is shown to be a strategic device which acts to obscure the specifics of a mission to protect Palestinian subjects. Secondly, examining accompaniment as praxis in the West Bank, a ‘non-partisan’ stance is shown to result in an embodied and ideological withdrawal from those being Continue reading → Continue reading →