Gjovalin Macaj 🍉

The Banality of Normalisation: The Desecuritisation of Israel’s Aggrandisement in the Middle East The United States (US)-orchestrated diplomatic integration of Israel in the Arab region, despite the continuous expansion of Israeli settler colonialism and violation of Palestinian and Arab sovere...

Why are Arab states “normalizing” relations with Israel — a state that is redrawing the geography of the region through genocide, occupation, apartheid, and forever wars against anyone who stands in its way? In this article, I try to answer this question 👇

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Germany's zeal for Israeli genocide revives its dangerous exceptionalism By weaponising Holocaust remembrance, Germany has resurrected the Sonderweg it claims to have abandoned, supporting extermination in Gaza to reassert national supremacy

We might not see what Germany is doing because Europe and much of the world is becoming like the Germany of the darkest times.

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In this piece, I discuss how the German establishment is moving Germany one exception at a time towards a permanent state of exception, overriding all ethical and legal standards to reassert German exceptionalism or Sonderweg.

The German question has not been answered, so it seems.

Millions have been forced to answer it, with their lives.

Today is the Palestinians’ turn.

Who’s next?

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My latest article ‘Mimetic hedging: Hezbollah’s resistance against all odds’ is out with @secdialogue.bsky.social.

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(PDF) Beyond the Paradigm of Unity: Embedded Minilateralism in European Foreign Policy PDF | The fundamental paradigm that informs EU foreign policy is that unity among EU states and institutions is necessary for the EU to be able to... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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👉 The discourse and actions emanating from EU states and institutions reflect a departure from the fundamental norms, practices, and institutions that the EU has tried to embody, undoing the justifications for its existence.

The fanatical support that Ursula von der Leyen has given to Israel in waging a war of extermination and genocide against the Palestinian people serves as one of the most catastrophic illustrations of the degeneration of the rule of law within the EU, and a total disregard for universal norms.

This approach helps identify and assess the factors that shape the choice for foreign policy options, but also trends and tendencies, including, surprisingly, crass unilateralism—call it solo diplomacy—within the European Commission, usually regarded as the guardian of the rule of law.

This piece addresses this anomaly by theorising European foreign policy beyond the EU, allowing for a systematic assessment of what member states do together and separately.

This is an anomaly that hinders a proper understanding of both the challenges and significance of EU foreign policy, and European foreign policy as a whole.

The disproportional focus on EU foreign policy conflates collective action of member states with their collective weight, and obscures the autonomy that member states enjoy in selecting from a range of foreign policy options (e.g. unilateralism, bilateralism, minilateralism, and multilateralism).

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EU foreign policy represents only a small fraction of the foreign policy activity of its member states, yet it attracts most attention in academic and policy circles, mistaking it for European foreign policy.
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Voices that have been silent for over 20 months of live-streamed genocide are not admitting that genocide is genocide.

Is this something to be welcomed or a reason for concern?

In this piece, @maricalc.bsky.social and I, discuss how to answer this question.

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Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International Dr Agnès Callamard is Secretary General at Amnesty International. She leads the organization’s human rights work and is its chief spokespers...

Join us for what promises to be an inspiring exchange with two leading voices on human rights in our dark times.

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WS Y. Varieties of European Foreign Policy. Gjovalin Macaj.

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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy The symposium, to be held on 8 and 9 May 2025, explores the consequences of the struggle for global normative primacy between China and the USA and their respective allies

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Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy | Call for papers for a two-day symposium to be held in Leiden on 8-9 May 2025. lnkd.in/dJJckkE6

Deadline for submissions: 20 February 2025.

Funding is available for young scholars.

CfP for a workshop I am convening at European Workshops in International Studies in Krakow on 2-4 July 2025: eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

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