@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
It really is the collapse of the traditional sovereign state model. Israel is claiming powers and privileges over security that negate an claims to coherent statehood for its neighbours while its enemies are increasingly orienting towards permanent sub-state status as a survival mechanism.
One of the 10,000 here.
Continuing this 🧵
Today, almost 20 000 people are being evacuated in Dresden for the disarmament of a WWII bomb.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Could you repeat that quote again more slowly for the translators:
It's the same going back to the League of Nations where the technical side is running smoothly in many cases right up to the invasion of France.
There are so many bizarre conflicting global narratives depending on the sub-field of international law you are looking at: for example, the Single Convention on Narcotics, one of the most universally accepted intl law initiatives of the 20th C. was passed in the midst of the Berlin crisis of 1961.
One aspect of studying the history of international law is that you come to appreciate how many boring technical sub-fields it has that keep chugging along regardless of how much "international law" writ large appears to be in crisis.
Congratulations! 🥂
Publication day! 🥳 #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler is officially out now! Thank you so much to the amazing team @yalebooks.bsky.social for making this possible, to everyone who has read drafts & offered feedback along the way, and to all those who are currently buying/reading it!
To be fair, he never promised that the US wouldn't act like the assassins, pirates or marauders of the world.
The Trotskyite klaxon is sounding and you are about to get a 78 skeet thread about how Soviet communism was actually a deformed socialistic version of state capitalism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Iv... Werner Herzog's documentary on the Kuwaiti oil field fires which burned for months in 1991 is worth revisiting.
The big money veto on this sort of reckless behaviour came from having the influence to prevent these sort of people from ever getting power in the first place. Once tpeople like Trump were allowed to come to power, they can detonate the global economy just because they want to see things go boom.
So many people in important positions around the world are still operating as if we are in an era of neoliberal guard rails where "don't mess with the money and crash the global economy" is a self-evident hard limit to policy decisions by the powerful.
Paralympians redeeming the name of Canadian curling after the olympics fiasco.
Both are parties of business and professionals but of different constellations from those groups.
Die AfD hat in nicht wenigen Wahlbezirken die meisten Stimmen geholt, mit zum Teil über 30%. Dies wäre nun der Zeitpunkt, endlich zu verstehen, dass Rechtsextremismus kein rein ostdeutsches Phänomen ist, sondern die Entwicklung mit Zeitverzögerung und nuanciert (fast) überall ähnlich eintritt #ltwbw
Was man zum Stand des Rechtsradikalismus in Deutschland wissen muss.
Weirdly in this case, Migrationshintergrund is very different from ethnicity given that Tillich was incredibly locally Saxon compared to your examples!
Cem Özdemir has become the first Minister-President of a German Federal State of turkish descent. There have been few people elected to this level who have non-German ethnic heritage. I believe only the half-Scottish David McAllister (CDU) and the Sorbian Stanislaw Tillich (CDU).
FDP micro targeting the anti social, anti-state, libertarian, tech wing of the bourgeoisie has been highly effective on its own terms if you ignore election outcomes.
Özdemir’s recent career is proof that while the CDU has decided to annihilate it’s left/moderate wing, it remains an incredibly popular and electorally successful proposition with actual voters.
I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war. - François Truffaut
Saw it in an empty theater on its release and it's been a favourite ever since.
Explaining homosexuality to small kids is remarkably easy. Hard questions to answer are things like "what are these metal stones in the ground with words on them?" as you walk over Stolpersteine.
Suprematism https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/suprematism
How has this been the discourse for my entire adult life? theonion.com/this-war-wil...
Following the norms of international law is not an act of idealism but a general guidebook to avoiding vast national self-harm.
Genuinely fascinated by the thought process of so many Western leaders in supporting war against Iran and then being immediately upset about the obvious logical consequences of launching a war with Iran.