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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉

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DPhil St Antony's College @ox.ac.uk, PhD @vubrussel.bsky.social Free Palestine

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Amid fears of Russia and doubts about US reliability, Europe is pushing for higher defense spending, strategic autonomy, and NATO targets. But who will ultimately pay for it? This talk asks how militarization reshapes public budgets. Featuring @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social buff.ly/vfG7yaS
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The Price of War: European Defense and the Military Industrial Complex
11-11-2025 Europe is ramping up its defenses, with discussions about militarization, strategic autonomy, and NATO targets becoming commonplace in political, mediatic, and public discourses. The…
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Frans van Heest @fransvanheest.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Gisteren was er aan de Universiteit Leiden een interessant debat over samenwerking tussen universiteit en Defensie, met o.a. @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social, @michielbot.bsky.social en @osinga.bsky.social. www.scienceguide.nl/2026/03/waar...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“Trump has become the face of the faceless predatory system that has supplanted politics with indirect global rule by private and corporate interests. He has stripped off the foundational moral pretensions of the existing system. With Trump as president, the mask is off...”
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I wrote this piece a few days after Trump was elected, and I would change little if I were to write it today: www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-has...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
How can these genocide enablers deploy their legal expertise to confront Trump when they have been serving exactly what Trump does and represents? How can they fail to see that Trump is doing what the USA has always done, this time without liberal illusions?
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It is the same intellectuals who have ruthlessly deployed their silence and voice to justify and normalise the Zionist extermination of the Palestinians and constant Zionist aggrandisement in the Middle East.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They hate Trump because they want to save the status quo, not to change it. They hate him because he shows what the USA is, not because he disfigures it.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They hate Trump not because of what he represents, but because of what he reveals. They hate him because he reveals how predatory capitalism, which perpetuates their power and privilege, operates in the real world.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
THIS IS USA. Establishment intellectuals are rediscovering their voice: they are reclaiming their critical credentials through disapproval of Trump. But why Trump?
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Panel: 'Peace-washing': the case of Palestine  - Leiden University
On the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 1948, this panel examines the application of human rights in colonial contexts. Do human...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Please join us this Friday at 3pm for what promises to be a fascinating, even if sobering, discussion about the state of our world, and please share widely. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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Peace or Lawlessness? The Vandalisation of International Law after UN Security Council Resolution 2803
November 17, 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, formally endorsing Trump’s 'Peace Plan' for Gaza. The resolution has ignited global outrage for normalising impunity for atrocity cr...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In this piece, @maricalc.bsky.social and I discuss the devastating consequences it has for the United Nations and fundamental norms that hold the world together, and the role of tributary subjects, Europe, Russia and China in unraveling them. archive.ph/i6Aua ilmanifesto.it/nasce-formal...
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Nasce formalmente la legislazione tributaria di Trump | il manifesto
Israele (Commenti) Nella sua eccezionale abilità nel predire future distopie, nemmeno Orwell avrebbe potuto immaginare quello che il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell’Onu ha adottato con la risoluzione 2803...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
That is what UN Security Council Resolution 2803 (2025) legislates. It should be called "Resolution 1984". It formalises American tributary legislation, where Trump acts as the world's sovereign.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Genocide is peace. Impunity is justice. Colonisation is self-determination. Transactionalism is ius cogens. Bending the knee is consent. American diktat is universal law.
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Marina Calculli 🇵🇸 @maricalc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
We might not see what Germany is doing because Europe and much of the world is becoming like the Germany of the darkest times. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germ...
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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
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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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Marina Calculli 🇵🇸 @maricalc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My latest article ‘Mimetic hedging: Hezbollah’s resistance against all odds’ is out with @secdialogue.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
You can read the full piece by clicking on the link below: www.researchgate.net/publication/... I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
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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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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🎉 I greatly enjoyed writing this piece alongside a great collection of authors, with the exceptional care and meticulous support of the editors Knud Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen and Laura Landorff! I want every writing experience to be as enjoyable and rewarding as this one!
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
👉 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.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📝 new publication📖 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. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/b...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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. ilmanifesto.it/un-genocidio...
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Join us for what promises to be an inspiring exchange with two leading voices on human rights in our dark times. All welcome, but prior registration is required. @amnesty.org @franceskalbs.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
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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...
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS Y) Varieties of European Foreign Policy
WS Y. Varieties of European Foreign Policy. Gjovalin Macaj.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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.
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Gjovalin Macaj 🍉 @gjovalinmacaj.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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... Abstracts can be submitted by 11 February here: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub... #Europe #Unilateralism #Minilateralism #Bilateralism #Multilateralism
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