It just occurred to me that the reason there is never peace in the Middle East is because both Israel and its Western allies think for some reason that retaliating against a retaliation is not escalatory*.
'Until recently, information about Member State delegations from 1946 to 1994 could only be found in print copies of the Blue Book....
But now, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library has digitized 276 volumes of the Blue Book covering the period from 1946 to 1994. From this year onward, the Blue Book was published in digital format.'
#Trump Says Little on #Gaza, & Nothing About What He’d Do Differently
In the ~5 months since #Hamas invaded #Israel on #Oct7, igniting the most divisive #ForeignPolicy crisis of #Biden’s presidency, Trump has said noticeably little about the subj.
#Trump’s hands-off approach to the bloody #MiddleEast conflict reflects the profound #AntiInterventionist [#isolationist] shift he has brought about in the #Republican Party over the past 8 yrs & has been colored by his feelings about #Netanyahu, whom he may never forgive for congratulating President #Biden for his 2020 victory.
Transdisciplinary and transepochal exchange can be inspiring and challenging at the same time. Halvard Leira explores what the #NewDiplomaticHistory can learn from #IR and where one has to be careful when adapting modern concepts to #emdiplomacy.
Why did it take so long for the Foreign Minister to actually speak with UNRWA.
Why are we making National decisions without evidence.
Why were the ‘ECAJ’ even approached for comment on a matter unrelated to Jewish livelihood in Australia.
What aren’t international human rights and health organisations approached for comment.
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As the first part of the #emdiplomacy handbook is all about changing perspectives on diplomatic history and exchanging ideas with experts from other disciplines, we want to introduce to you our author @halvardl who is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and an expert on #InternationalRelations, #diplomacy with a special focus on historical international relations and international thought. He also is a member of the editorial team of the European Journal of International Relations and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Historical-International-Relations/Carvalho-Lopez-Leira/p/book/9781032006697 (2/5)
For the handbook he explores the development of the field of #InternationalRelations and its relation to #diplomatic#history. Over the years both fields have often tackled similar questions, according to Leira, but interestingly mostly separately from each other. There has been exchange, but there’s still room for collaboration and learning from each other.
Thus, he gives us some suggestions what the history of #emdiplomacy specifically could learn from International Relations. (3/5)
But it’s not only #earlymodern#NewDiplomaticHistory that can learn from an exchange with #IR: @halvardl is sure that this could give #InternationalRelations a better understanding of how and when ‘the international’ emerged and changed. There is much to learn for both sides and we are looking forward to explore at least some of the questions raised by Leira. (5/5)
📖 The book "Consuls in the Cold War", edited by Sue Onslow and Lori Maguire, includes a chapter authored by Pedro Aires Oliveira dedicated to the diplomatic relations between Portugal and the People's Republic of China in the mid-20th century. 🇵🇹 🇨🇳
#InternationalLaw#InternationalRelations#Diplomacy: "To conclude: on any realistic assessment, international law is neither truthfully international nor genuinely law. That, however, does not mean it is not a force to be reckoned with. It is a major one. But its reality is as Austin described it: what in the vocabulary which he inherited from Hobbes he termed opinion, and today we would call ideology. There, as an ideological force in the world at the service of the hegemon and its allies, it is a formidable instrument of power. For Hobbes, opinion was the key to the political stability or instability of a kingdom. As he wrote: ‘The actions of men proceed from their opinions, and in the well governing of opinions consisteth the well governing of men’s actions’—thus ‘the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people’. It was seditious opinions, he believed, that triggered the Civil War in England, and it was to instill correct opinions that he wrote Leviathan, which he hoped would be taught in the universities that were ‘the fountains of civil and moral doctrine’, to bring ‘public tranquility’ back to the land. We do not have to share the extent of Hobbes’s respect for the power of opinion, or indeed his preferences among the opinions of his day, to acknowledge the validity of the importance he attached to them. International law may be a mystification. It is not a trifle."