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Irene Fernández-Molina

@irenefmolina.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer International Relations, University of Exeter | IR Global South, foreign policy, conflicts, international recognition, norms and practices, Maghreb, EU-MENA | Views mine experts.exeter.ac.uk/24733-irene-fe…

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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How does power play out in EU migration governance? 20 great scholars take up this question, with multiple cases and approaches, in the new @mpc-eui.bsky.social volume I have edited with @tsourapas.bsky.social. 👉Open access: doi.org/10.2870/4806... 👉Read our interview: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What a MAMMOTH result. 100% the product of everyone's efforts over the summer.
RECORD-BREAKING BALLOT RESULT
EXETER UCU VOTES FOR ACTION
90.53% VOTE YES TO STRIKE
73.85% TURNOUT
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our edited volume "Migration Power Europe" is out, open access! 12 chapters, 20 contributors, on what Brussels rarely says aloud: that migration governance is an exercise of power. Many thanks @mpc-eui.bsky.social ky.social @irenefmolina.bsky.social 📕 Free to download: tinyurl.com/bdd9k2nr
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My university is cutting almost a 1/4 of academics in humanities and the social sciences. Despite what managers say, it's not about the money. They are using a national crisis born of 15 yrs of govt neglect as a pretext to make ideological moves against HASS fields. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff
The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".
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Exeter Green Party @exetergreens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4
Graphic which reads: Statement of solidarity with Exeter University and College Union.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Stuck abroad with your baby for several months even though they are legally allowed in the UK? Too bad, says Mike Tapp, you should read gov.uk daily like the rest of us obviously do. No complaining allowed unless you're a hero voter with 'concerns'. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Scottish mum stuck abroad after baby falls foul of UK dual nationality rules
Sarah Schloegl was unable to board flight home from Spain as 11-month-old lacked documents needed under new rules
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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Over the past two days, @kaoutarghi.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, to rethink the concepts of 'state' and 'regime' in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Iranian scholar friends, who would like to have their name passed on to media outlets (print or air)?
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Benjamin Badier-Hodayé @benjaminhodaye.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
C'est aujourd'hui que sort l'Atlas du Maghreb aux éditions Autrement ! Avec Anne Lascaux et @gbalavoine, nous proposons une synthèse des principaux enjeux de cette région, de la Mauritanie à la Libye 🗺️🇲🇷🇱🇾🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳🇪🇭
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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?
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The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine
An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.
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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Looking forward to next week's discussion of @jheathershaw.bsky.social's excellent and important book, Indulging Kleptocracy, co-authored with Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne, at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social!
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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Asylum is not "illegal migration" Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
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Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
C'est ici qu'on peut voir le Colloque : la Palestine et l'Europe, poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines
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CAREP Paris - YouTube
Le CAREP Paris est un centre de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales qui contribue à l’élargissement du débat scientifique sur les pays arabes.
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Social & Political Science, Philosophy, Anthropology @exeterspspa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Fascinating new study by @irenefmolina.bsky.social, from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social shows how the EU’s longstanding territorial undifferentiation practices have been successfully challenged through “lawfare”, or legal activism, from the Polisario Front, producing compelling case-law.
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EU ambiguity on Western Sahara frozen conflict is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for Sahrawis, study shows
The European Union’s legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of an EU firm position on the no...
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📣 Call for Papers: Migration Power Europe @irenefmolina.bsky.social & I are organising a workshop on EU migration politics, based on our @iajournal.bsky.social piece (lnkd.in/d_98wCDD), at @mpc-eui.bsky.social in Florence. Consider applying! 🗓 Deadline: 15 Nov ℹ️ Details: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
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HRW_AR @hrwarabic.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
هل سيفي ملك #المغرب بوعوده بخلق وظائف وتحسين الرعاية الصحية والتعليم؟ وهل ستحقق حكومته أيضا في استخدام القوة القاتلة وتُفرج عن المتظاهرين السلميين المعتقلين؟ #GenZ212
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
More here: abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/echoes-of-ir...
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Echoes of Iraq in the Gaza ceasefire
It is difficult to share Trump’s optimism that the cease-fire has unlocked a broader transformation of the Middle East—or even that it will survive contact with reality on the ground in Gaza. I have ...
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drmeganprice.bsky.social @drmeganprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Open access and fresh off the press, this volume explores the connections between secessionists, international law, and war. My chapter examines the role of international law in the final stages of fighting between the Tamil Tigers and government forces in Sri Lanka. share.google/cxrU8KTtrvKH...
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Contested States in War and Law
Contested States in War and Law; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together perspectives from a range of disciplines, this book explores the precarious situation of s...
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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
👇 New article in @govandopp.bsky.social where Alfonso Casani, @fcolin.bsky.social and I bring together our theoretical and empirical work on foreign policy, opposition and authoritarianism through the extreme case of Morocco and Israel's wars on Gaza, and with material from field research since 2007
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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Is irregular migration really a recent phenomenon? Drawing on colonial archives, Y. Benhadda traces #lhrig, a Maghrebi term for irregular border crossing, back to colonial Morocco, challenging dominant narratives of crisis and unprecedentedness in today’s migration debates. doi.org/10.1093/migr...
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Government and Opposition @govandopp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New on #FirstView - "Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza" - cup.org/4mF9E9x - Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 28/08/2025
#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social - Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism: Moroccan Political Reconfigurations in Response to Israel’s Wars on Gaza - cup.org/4mF9E9x - Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin & @irenefmolina.bsky.social #FirstView
Logo of "Government & Opposition" displayed in white text on a black and red background with the tag "#OpenAccess" underneath.
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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Bienvenido CEARC, nuevo centro de estudios sobre el mundo árabe orientado hacia la comunidad investigadora y el público hispanohablante en Europa y América Latina
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Yazid Benhadda @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Really happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD yesterday! Thanks to my supervisors @irenefmolina.bsky.social and @briegp.bsky.social for their support throughout the journey and to examiners Martin Thomas and @fionaadamson.bsky.social for their generous and constructive feedback.
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Bosco Govantes @boscogovantes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🇹🇳I’m thrilled to share our new article with @mhlarramendi.bsky.social‬ & Antonio Alfonso: “Voting with dissatisfaction: An analysis of the 2019 parliamentary election in Tunisia" doi.org/10.1080/1351... in ‪@democratization.bsky.social‬ #Tunisia #elections #populism @pablodeolavide.upo.es
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Yazid Benhadda @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices
Abstract. Despite its sophistication, most of the literature on the securitization of migration remains presentist in the sense that it has not yet truly i
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Nathalie Tocci @nathalietocci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Israel wages war invoking “self-defence”.Nuclear armed Israel/US attack Iran to stop it making nuclear weapons it wasn’t making.Europeans call for diplomacy without condemning the attack that killed it.Russia opposes the violation of int law, while doing far worse in Ukraine.As Orwellian as it gets
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Centre of Advanced International Studies @cais-exeter.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Delighted to report that our colleague Kevork Oskanian will be a permanent member of CAIS faculty from September! Congratulations, Kevork! @drkevorko.bsky.social experts.exeter.ac.uk/38375-kevork...
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Maruja Torres @marujatorres.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Esto de @galtares.bsky.social elpais.com/cultura/2025...
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El hambre como arma de guerra en la era de la abundancia
Thomas Keneally, el autor de ‘La lista de Schindler’, investigó las hambrunas a lo largo de la historia y llegó a la conclusión de que todas las víctimas comparten el mismo sufrimiento
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Real Instituto Elcano / Elcano Royal Institute @rielcano.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Los acontecimientos deportivos de primer nivel como forma de ejercer el poder blando en las relaciones internacionales: el caso de Marruecos y el Mundial de fútbol 2030. ✍️ Antonio Navarro www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/mun...
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Mundial 2030: la puesta de largo sobre el césped del soft power marroquí
El Mundial 2030 representa para Marruecos una oportunidad estratégica para proyectar su poder blando a escala regional e internacional.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels. This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.
An overhead photo showing 100s of people corralled by fencing and barbed wire into a tiny area. Three security people in high vis on the other side of the gates.
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Lucas Knotter @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My colleagues and I tried to grapple with similar questions last year in this @gsqjournal.bsky.social Special Forum academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic....
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Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order: Furthering a Research Agenda
Abstract. This article serves as the introduction to this Special Forum on Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order. The articles in this Spe
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Owen D Thomas @drowendthomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 New paper out in European Journal of IR 🚨 Faiz Sheikh and I draw on Ibn Khaldun’s political thought to rethink the crisis of liberal international order—not as a problem of technique, but as an unresolved and destructive tension between LIO’s claim to universalism and its entrenched whiteness.
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Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Funded workshop at Southampton on the topic of "Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe"! Workshop will be held on June 16. Please submit your proposals/abstract by May 21. (Please help circulate widely!) Kamil Zwolski, John Denham, and I are the coordinators of this event.
Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe

The Centre for Comprehensive European Security at the University of Southampton is pleased to invite paper submissions for an upcoming workshop on Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe. The workshop will take place on June 16 at the University of Southampton.
Europe is currently navigating a period marked by significant political upheaval and realignments – both domestically amidst the rising tide of populism and internationally with the second Trump Administration. We invite papers that explore the relationship between identity (broadly defined) and public opinion about European security. 

Globalisation, energy security, and the rise of a multi-polar world (inter alia) significantly challenge the ability of nation states to meet the aspirations of voters in both domestic and international affairs. Yet, the nation state retains its place as the primary site of political contest and preference aggregation. We seek papers that explore the how this space between expectation and delivery has implications for comprehensive European security.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Starmer's Britain. Not even subtle.
They found ourselves made strangers in their own country. Enoch Powell. We risk becoming an island of strangers. Keir Starmer.
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Must read from Josep Borrell. "“We’re facing the largest ethnic cleansing operation since the end of the second world war in order to create a splendid holiday destination" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The MESA Board of Directors has issued a statement condemning unlawful visa revocations and intimidation targeting international students and scholars. Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/let...
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
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David Perejil @davidperejil.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Llega #LaAzotea 8. En #AzoteaCasielles tenemos el placer de escuchar las reflexiones de Laura Casielles sobre Marruecos, el Sáhara Occidental y la responsabilidad colonial y actual de España @ymouled.bsky.social @reimrevista.bsky.social @irenefmolina.bsky.social En 📻 go.ivoox.com/rf/141326031
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Laura Casielles y la colonialidad española en Marruecos y el Sáhara Occidental - La Azotea - Podcast en iVoox
Escucha y descarga los episodios de La Azotea gratis. Subimos a #LaAzotea con Laura Casielles para conversar sobre la colonialidad española en Marruecos y el Sáhara Occidental, memorias, olvidos,...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women’s Day from Rosa Luxemburg and me ✊❤️!
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Sonia Chabane (she/her)| سنية @soniachabane.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Amazing essay, as little is known about Italy's colonial project in Libya. Italian settlers (~20,000) built concentration camps in the desert of Sirte where 100,000 Libyans were confined. By 1951, Italy’s ethnic cleansing may have decreased the local population by 10% newlinesmag.com/first-person...
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My Grandpa, the Fascist?
An old family album sent me on a journey through Italy’s dark past in Libya
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What is the Middle East? I’m thrilled to announce the publication- and free download - of my new, hopefully provocative Cambridge Element on the theory and practice of regions and area studies. Get it now and let me know what you think! abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
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What is the Middle East?
I'm thrilled to announce publication of my hopefully provocative new Element!
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Centre of Advanced International Studies @cais-exeter.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Delighted to host Professor Ayşe Zarakol at Exeter today! A great turnout for a thought provoking talk on whether today’s poly crisis is unprecedented? The answer? Yes and no, but the 17th century is a better historical analogy than 19th or 20th @aysezarakol.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social
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Centre of Advanced International Studies @cais-exeter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
EWIS workshop to be led by two Exeter CAIS colleagues @irenefmolina.bsky.social @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between
(WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between. Yazid Benhadda. Irene Fernandez-Molina.
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Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Call for abstracts for our @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS25 workshop on 'The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between' (Krakow, 2-4 July) Convened by @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social and myself 👉 eisa-net.org/wp-content/u... Submission deadline: 11 February
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Article in the Lancet estimates the number of direct casualties in Gaza up till the summer of 2024 at 64,260. 40% above official estimates. With excess mortality, the death toll will be in the hundreds of thousands. The question is how many hundreds. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis
Our findings show an exceptionally high mortality rate in the Gaza Strip during the period studied. These results underscore the urgent need for interventions to prevent further loss of life and illuminate important patterns in the conduct of the war.
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