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Malcolm Jorgensen

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Snr. Research Fellow Politics of International Law @mpil.de | PhD/Author “American Foreign Policy Ideology and the International Rule of Law” (CUP, 2020) | Berliner/🇳🇿🇦🇺 | https://www.mpil.de/en/pub/institute/personnel/academic-staff/mjorgens.cfm

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10th Annual Carl Schmitt Lecture @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Prof. Martti Koskenniemi: “The Search for the Social in International Law: Remarks on a Critical Theme”

30.10.2025 20:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thomas Franck Lecture @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: Prof. @oonahathaway.bsky.social “War Unbound”, on the breakdown of International Humanitarian Law

27.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Link to my profile here👆👆👆

14.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rehabilitating the “Neocons” is no Zeitenwende

Chilling verfassungsblog.de/the-neocons-...

14.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The architects of the Iraq War–Condoleezza Rice, John Bolton, and Philip Zelikow–recently appeared at German foreign-policy circles.

MALCOLM JORGENSEN warns against rehabilitating the neocons – and explains why they should not be advising on a new security order:

verfassungsblog.de/the-neocons-...

14.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 33    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 2
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Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

Trump's policy that US is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels as “unlawful combatants” demonstrates what I've termed the shift towards "geolegal" orders—where interpretation and operation of international law depends foremost on configurations of geostrategic power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

07.10.2025 11:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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American Foreign Policy Ideology and the International Rule of Law Cambridge Core - Public International Law - American Foreign Policy Ideology and the International Rule of Law

My book now published #openaccess: “American Foreign Policy Ideology and The International Rule of Law: Contesting Power through the International Criminal Court” (Cambridge UP, 2020). More timely in 2025 than ever, with ICC politics a key battleground for international law doi.org/10.1017/9781...

23.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What Comes Next? Imagining a New Economic and Security Commons - American Academy in Berlin Condoleezza Rice and Philip Zelikow offer practical ideas for cohering an economic and security commons that addresses problems no nation can tackle alone.

3/3 For full video and details of the event: www.americanacademy.de/videoaudio/w...

16.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2/2 Secretary Rice was of course a key proponent of the illegal 2003 Iraq War and Professor Zelikow oversaw drafting of the 2002 US National Security Strategy with its infamous “Bush Doctrine” or right to wage preventive war.

16.09.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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1/2 My exchange with Condoleezza Rice at the American Academy in Berlin. Only critical intervention of the event, despite obvious contradiction of speaking on “What Comes Next? Imagining a New Economic and Security Commons”, without acknowledging her role undermining the current international order.

16.09.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Opening of the 2025 European Society of International Law Annual Conference “Reconstructing International Law” @esil-sedi.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

11.09.2025 11:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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06.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Declaring that the US Department of Defense/“War” will be guided by “maximum lethality—not tepid legality” is as explicit a rejection of the international legal order as one can imagine #intlaw

06.09.2025 12:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Why the ICC is in the fight of its life with Trump | About That
YouTube video by CBC News Why the ICC is in the fight of its life with Trump | About That

Pleased to contribute comments for this #CBC ‘About That’ investigative report on the history and politics of the International Criminal Court—and significance of recent US sanctions against #ICC judges and senior personnel including 🇨🇦Judge Kimberly Prost
youtu.be/mBW6DOss67w

02.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘One Of The Most Advanced Militaries In The World Accidentally Hits Another Hospital Again’ via @betootaadvocate.bsky.social www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...

27.08.2025 22:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Six Viewpoints on the Future of the International Legal Order and the Role of International Courts It has become trite to question the role and meaning of international law in a world where it is being flouted – often flagrantly – on a daily basis. President Trump’s second term has prompted cries o...

Six Viewpoints on the Future of the International Legal Order and the Role of International Courts | by Philippa Webb and Lydia Kim

20.08.2025 11:43 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Israel, Gaza and the Debate Over Genocide | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Israel, Gaza and the Debate Over Genocide | The Ezra Klein Show

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

When Is It Genocide?
Philippe Sands discusses how to think about the tragedies in Gaza through the lens of international law.
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm...

youtu.be/RrhBypHFYPY?...

13.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 98    🔁 27    💬 5    📌 27
Quote: “Small island States have contributed the least to climate change, yet now face an existential threat.”

Quote: “Small island States have contributed the least to climate change, yet now face an existential threat.”

Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks?

AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis.

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19.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Prof. Dapo Akande, UK candidate for the ICJ, speaking at @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Berlin on “Is the International Legal Order Eroding? And If So, What Can be Done About it?”

07.07.2025 16:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
@humboldtuni.bsky.social @mpil.de

@humboldtuni.bsky.social @mpil.de

Last week’s Berlin workshop with authors from every continent, for a forthcoming edited volume: “Comparative International Legal Policy: National, Regional and Transnational Approaches”. An interdisciplinary look at political approaches towards international legal order📖🌏

06.07.2025 22:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us in Berlin next Wed. 2 July, for an exceptional public forum @Humboldt University: “The Politics of International Law: How do States Aim to Change the International Legal Order?”—5 leading scholars from diverse perspectives debating foreign policies towards international law. RSVP ILP@mpil.de

27.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Turns out that the unlawful use of force is illegal for a reason.

www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...

29.06.2025 17:12 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us in Berlin next Wed. 2 July, for an exceptional public forum @Humboldt University: “The Politics of International Law: How do States Aim to Change the International Legal Order?”—5 leading scholars from diverse perspectives debating foreign policies towards international law. RSVP ILP@mpil.de

27.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A pretty clear signal that the internal legal advice was: “there is no way to spin this as legal”; which, in fairness, is the only available assessment.

23.06.2025 10:29 — 👍 53    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0
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Thoughts from John Bolton:
◦Takes no responsibility for foreign policy ideas influencing Trump
◦🇬🇱 a part of American landmass “I would personally welcome American sovereignty over Greenland”
◦Gaza War solution is to remove Palestinians from their own lands and abolish UNRWA

19.06.2025 19:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Nobody Saw This Coming! Astrid Makes The Audience Sing In Harmony To "Africa" By Toto! | AGT 2025
YouTube video by America's Got Talent Nobody Saw This Coming! Astrid Makes The Audience Sing In Harmony To "Africa" By Toto! | AGT 2025

When your sister @astridjorgensen.bsky.social has a much cooler job than you #AGT #pubchoir
youtu.be/DckioIUhP1I?...

18.06.2025 14:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The best conference so far this year! Congratulations to @ninareiners.bsky.social & @debremaria.bsky.social on fostering such a rich interdisciplinary discussion on this timely topic!

Not to mention an incredible opening event at the historic Norwegian Nobel Institute!

05.06.2025 09:15 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
Aerial view of Greenland from aeroplane window

Aerial view of Greenland from aeroplane window

Flying over Greenland…no American flags in sight🇬🇱

10.06.2025 17:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great start to 3 days of discussion at the “Autocracies as International Lawmakers” Workshop, University of Oslo - hosted by @ninareiners.bsky.social @debremaria.bsky.social 🇳🇴

03.06.2025 09:13 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Working with Sugarloaf Mountain in the background is possibly the best office view I will ever have - thanks to @fgvoficial.bsky.social Rio Law for the research stay 🇧🇷

20.05.2025 15:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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