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Chiara De Franco

@chiara-defranco.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of IR @ Uni of Southern Denmark | human protection | EU, UN, AU | diplomacy| languaging | mother of two | she/her

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CWS - Center for War Studies @cwswarstudies.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📣NEW: "Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM" by our colleague @chiara-defranco.bsky.social & Linnéa Gelot just published in Journal of International Relations and Development link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM - Journal of International Relations and Development
This article examines the interplay of power and norm contestation in the AU–EU strategic partnership, focusing on struggles over human rights protection in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISO...
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Presented my paper on the EU and human rights at a brilliant LSE/KCL workshop on Europe in the Trump era. Big thanks to the organisers Federica Bicchi, Benedetta Voltolini, Karen Smith and Benedetta Morari. Also my first time back in London in 12 years—I’d missed this city (even the tube).
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Baltic crisis, cyber chaos, pipelines blown, NATO sweating—just another Monday in the classroom with our BA students in political science and Cand.Negot. They nailed it. They tuned in, negotiated, made decisions despite uncertainty. Props to Hendrik Huelss for co-running the madness.
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CWS - Center for War Studies @cwswarstudies.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🎧 What is the future of human protection in international security? Listen to a new episode of the WarPod featuring the CWS' @chiara-defranco.bsky.social, @qiaochuzhang.bsky.social & Oscar Noach + 3 speakers at "The Future of Human Protection" conference in Copenhagen soundcloud.com/thewarpod/wa...
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WarPod #9 The Future of Human Protection
The WarPod speaks to Chiara De Franco (Associate Professor at the CWS and Principal Investigator of the PROTEX project), Qiaochu Zhang (Postdoctoral Researcher at the CWS), and Oscar Noach (PhD Fellow
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
me coming in guns-a-blazing, with absolute certainty and confidence that what I say next will eliminate any doubt about my competence
Pete Hegseth post: "So, let's me get this straight."
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Yes. He’s a very specific case of ‘the political is personal and the personal is political’. Not the feminist way. Rather the narcissistic pathological way.
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Jean-Paul Marthoz @jpmarthoz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Jody Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists defends US public media's crucial role in reporting in the public interest. Both NPR and PBS are seen by Trump's far right as "communists". In fact the Trump Administration is the one copying the Stalinist playbook cpj.org/2025/03/cpj-...
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CPJ: House hearing on PBS and NPR a ‘dangerous mischaracterization’ of U.S. public media - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., March 26, 2025 —The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the willful mischaracterization of the vital work and role of public broadcasters NPR and PBS during today’s Congression...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The same people who are responsible for the signal gate think that they can negotiate a lasting end to the war in Ukraine. Putin’s russia is eating them alive. They project weakness and amateurism on scales unseen before
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Also here is a link to the book mentioned, which I co-edited with my SDU colleagues Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Martin Mennecke www.routledge.com/Ending-War-A...
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Ending War: A Dialogue across Disciplines
Ending War: A Dialogue across Disciplines examines how wars end from a multidisciplinary perspective and includes enquiries into the politics of war, the laws of war, and the military and intellectual...
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of chatting with ABC Australia Overnight’s Rod Quinn about how wars end. Tune in for 55 minutes of not-so-uplifting stories—if you dare. Ps correction needed: i’m no longer director @cwswarstudies.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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"How Do Wars End?" with Associate Professor Chiara De Franco - ABC listen
How do wars end? Do they ever REALLY end? Chiara De Franco is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Centre for War Studies at the U...
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Dump&Vile continue to cancel history and make idiotic statements. Denmark has been a steadfast ally—Danes have lost lives, limbs, and sleep in Afghanistan. More than any other ally (pro capita). If they wanted more US military presence in Greenland, they could’ve just asked… three months ago.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Inspirational.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Instead, give them instruments to understand how they can help the judges and local authorities that are already defending your democratic institutions. there’s plenty of research on non-violent resistance to draw from, for example by @chenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is where good journalism has an advantage over scientific analysis: you can make autocracy real to your target audience before risks materialize; 3) don’t stop at scaring your audience. There’s nothing worse than making warnees feel powerless.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
2) what is a stake for you, all of you, including trump’s voters. Including the Schumers. I suspect many Americans might not fully realize what it means to live under the power of an autocrat. Give detailed examples of how their life would get transformed in tragic and yet mundane ways.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
There’s unfortunately plenty of historical and contemporary cases to draw on for comparison, but Americans might believe their institutions are stronger than, say, Turkey’s so I’m not so sure these comparisons help. Just focus on how things might look like in 6 months if Trump is not contained;
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My research shows legacy media like @nytimes.com can produce persuasive warnings affecting policy makers and broader public: you need to step up! You need to explain: 1) What is happening in very specific and unambiguous terms: your democracy is dying and you are becoming an electoral autocracy
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I have studied warnings for nearly 17 years now and when it comes to the deadly risks the US democracy is facing, I keep seeing very strong warning indications (as in the case of the article below) but almost no proper warning, which is typical of developing crises www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“They perform omnipotence so convincingly that only when they fall do we see how brittle their power truly was.”
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“strongmen project invincibility to convince people resistance is futile. They want to crush any hope of justice. By sowing fear, they seek to stifle our democratic imagination.” www.cjr.org/world/dutert...
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On the Arrest of an Autocrat
Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
	•	Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
	•	Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
	•	A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
	•	The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
As a recent SIPRI report shows, the US accounts for 43% of global arms exports, with Europeans as their top customer over the past five years. That market’s about to tank faster than Tesla sales. www.euractiv.com/section/defe...
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is what you get when you mess with us—no enjoyment here. I’m no fan of European militarization, but it needs to be said: The claim that Europeans exploited the US military umbrella under NATO—the GDP percentage argument—ignores that much of EU defense spending went to buying US weapons.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞
Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Two weeks ago in Chicago, I was reminded of the bright side of U.S. society and history, after weeks of news showing its darkest, most violent forces taking power. You can do this. All of you. Together. In the streets.
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Al Jazeera Investigates @ajiunit.com · 19/03/2025
"Someone's using the identity of someone who's died to do their own propaganda." Fake journalists, stolen identities and paid articles - our @AJIunit investigation reveals a Russia-linked influence campaign in West Africa. #GhostReporters Watch now: aje.io/GhostReporters
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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“…the entire system felt rigged, designed to make it nearly impossible for anyone to get out. The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.”
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"To protect civilians and other victims of war – in Europe and beyond – it is critical to ... reject the notion that respect for IHL can be subordinated to security or defence considerations, however exceptional the circumstances." blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
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Anti-personnel mines: the false promise of security through exceptionalism in war
Efforts to abandon the APMBC challenge fundamental precepts of IHL and undermine essential safeguards for upholding humanity in war.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is shameful and reckless—on so many levels that it’s hard to know where to begin. This is not the way forward, Europe. We must strengthen, not dismantle, the few widely accepted rules protecting civilians in conflict. We need alliances built on shared norms, not fuel warmongering instincts.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Coping strategies of Tesla owners in Denmark: When you buy an expensive car to feel cool, and a sticker becomes your last line of defense.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I agree that in public he could not directly confront Trump, but I can think of quite a few more meaningful things to say and do. He’s an experienced politician. I find it shameful that he had nothing better to say.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think laughing was a very inappropriate response. I can think of quite a few more meaningful things to say and do. He’s an experienced politician
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think laughing was a very inappropriate response
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yeah well, you’re not alone …
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mark Rutte doesn’t want to drag NATO into this? Seriously? If NATO SG can’t even hold the line on Greenland, what is he even there for? I like to believe international organizations outlast erratic leaders—but clearly NATO might prove me wrong www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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Trump expresses confidence that US will annex Greenland
President Donald Trump expressed confidence on Thursday that the United States would annex Greenland.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For example: Come Back Alive and the Prytula Foundation savelife.in.ua/en/ prytulafoundation.org/en
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Come Back Alive Foundation - Charity Organization
One of the top charity organizations who help the Ukraine Army since 2014. Donate via the website - 100% of proceeds go directly to Ukraine Army.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I won’t say anything about those two (Dump&Vile). In fact I will say the only thing that must be said: #SlavaUkraini! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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Trump Berates Zelensky at White House Meeting: Live Updates
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I am done with Amazon and so should you. Bezos’ assault to the WP is not just a US problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
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Jeff Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit
David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Great article - must read www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...
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Opinion | South Africa Is a Warning
By closing their frontiers to migrants, rich countries risk destabilizing important nations across the globe.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them.’ open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
‘Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics …, tell you that they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept the money.
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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What a treat it was to spend two days in Copenhagen debating the future of human protection in the changing global order. A discussion led by @chiara-defranco.bsky.social and @ligelot.bsky.social with plenty of strong and diverse contributions.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is happening in two days! A few spots are still available, sign up if you wish to attend! @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @carlsbergfondet.dk
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Ukraine may end up being under the most pressure to agree to Trump’s terms as it has the most to lose." theconversation.com/is-trump-cha...
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Is Trump changing tack on ending the war in Ukraine?
Trump is urging Putin – as well as others – to end the war in Ukraine, or face consequences.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
After three weeks in solitary confinement in Teheran’s Evin prison, the Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been freed. How many women are still detained on political charges in Iran? How many still singing and dancing to protest?
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Appalling move by meta. Time to say goodbye also to FB, which I kept using to stay in touch with friends afar. Any suggestions about alternatives? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/t...
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Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. President-elect Trump and his conservative allies said they were pleased.
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Chiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This event is part of my DFF PROTEX project, which will soon have its own page on Bluesky (and an updated website): protexproject.eu. Looking forward to seeing some of you there! #HumanProtection #Denmark4UNSC @denmarkun.bsky.social @cwswarstudies.bsky.social
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Protex | Studying Protection Complexity
An international research project examining how the European Union, the United Nations, and the African Union practice protection of civilians in Mali, Central African Republic, and Somalia.
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