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International law is not dead The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

International law is not dead

The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

By Dominik Leusder

It’s much more complex than that. Of course those who are referred are never the incumbents (who are frequently as guilty) and often it is simply due to the lack of local venues that could guarantee a trial without social unrest. But my point is that it is not the ICC only going after Africans.

Death and Destruction From the Sky • EQUATOR Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran

Why does the old regime persist?

For this @equatormag.bsky.social symposium, I offer some stylised explanations of what the ECFR calls ‘strategic lunacy’: the tenacity of European servility despite the waning of both US power and the benefits of submitting to it.

www.equator.org/articles/dea...

International law is not dead The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

My Weekend Essay for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: why the 'left-realist' critique of int’l law is a form of disenchantment that obscures more about political reality than it illuminates.

A short critique of Perry Anderson via EP Thompson, Carr, Weber.

www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

Excellent piece: a sharp defence of international law against both liberal hypocrisy and cynical “left realism”.

Death and Destruction From the Sky • EQUATOR Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran

Why does the old regime persist?

For this @equatormag.bsky.social symposium, I offer some stylised explanations of what the ECFR calls ‘strategic lunacy’: the tenacity of European servility despite the waning of both US power and the benefits of submitting to it.

www.equator.org/articles/dea...

International law is not dead The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

International law is not dead - The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order @newlefteviews.bsky.social

“The law is an instrument of class warfare not just for the rulers but one that can and should be repurposed by the ruled into real constraints on power.”

I've written an overview of the deindustrialisation discourse in Germany: the elite has been sleepwalking into crisis. The title exaggerates but what I do get at is that two decades of terrible macro policy set up German industry for China trade shock.

jacobin.com/2026/03/germ...

International law is not dead The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

My Weekend Essay for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: why the 'left-realist' critique of int’l law is a form of disenchantment that obscures more about political reality than it illuminates.

A short critique of Perry Anderson via EP Thompson, Carr, Weber.

www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

Let’s say the visuals are rather unfortunate.

That coat is just pure Andor.

This asks for a more complete treatment and I will get a stack post next with more charts etc.

I've written an overview of the deindustrialisation discourse in Germany: the elite has been sleepwalking into crisis. The title exaggerates but what I do get at is that two decades of terrible macro policy set up German industry for China trade shock.

jacobin.com/2026/03/germ...

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The tube’s flooring looks like it has ggplot’s viridis colour palette and I need to get a life

Made a chart (Re: EU-Mercosur-India trade deals).

Was struck by how small the share of exports with Japan is, but digging deeper, since the 2018 EU-JP Trade Agreement, bilateral total (goods and services) trade soared by 20%, albeit from low baseline. Lends credence to the 'much potential' take?

Made a chart (Re: EU-Mercosur-India trade deals).

Was struck by how small the share of exports with Japan is, but digging deeper, since the 2018 EU-JP Trade Agreement, bilateral total (goods and services) trade soared by 20%, albeit from low baseline. Lends credence to the 'much potential' take?

Cross posted:

Agree with Karthik that weaponising centrality in that domain is self-terminating.

*sigh*

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a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room

Everything else is just dandy

The miserable thing about the dollar system is that developing countries get screwed on the way up (refinancing-, debt servicing- and import costs rise) and on the way down (lower value of their dollar-denominated sovereign debt means higher yields).

Any reason to repost “hurry, carry” <-> Hara Kiri

These USDJPY days must be field days for @rajakorman.bsky.social

I will tag gladly tag along wondering why I’m there!

And do you see your dependence on the fin sector as geopolitically liability. Obvs they feel they can’t actually pull these threads.

So this is famously opaque no? afaik know there isn’t a country-level breakdown or private vs public holding, and even less for entities by region. But my impression is that it’s mostly custodianship. But that wouldn’t change the legal case no? It’s just: are you willing to tank London as a haven

whole heartedly agree about this though. an absolutely necessary first step.

China Came Late to Capitalism but Early to Its Pathologies In China, the number of single-person households has increased along with rates of loneliness. In this respect, China is not unique. It is simply suffering from the same social dislocation affecting a...

Nice dip into the rise of loneliness in China by @newlefteviews.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2026/01/chin...