Part of the Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Writing Jewish Women’s Lives

The questions of war, militarism, colonialism, imperialism, dissent and Jewishness have been anything but theoretical conundrums in 2023-2024. For three months since October 7th, Dr Dana Mills wrote near-daily essays, reporting her fears, thoughts and – occasionally – hopes. These diaries were published in March 2024 as One Woman’s War.

This Article presents the case for revising the rules governing withdrawals from human rights treaties that explicitly allow for denunciation. Once a rarity, withdrawals (and threats of withdrawal) from global and regional human rights treaties have been on the rise across the globe. Standard rules of international law address these withdrawals by giving unfettered powers to executive organs of the state, only limited by notification requirements.

Why does issue linkage gain support from some domestic groups, not others? Al- though governments have long used economic tools to promote environmental and climate goals internationally, we know relatively little about when such linkage gains support or elicits backlash from environmental activists. Based on the premise that ac- tivists face severe commitment problems during linkage processes, I argue that activists’ positions on linkage vary by their ties to intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Historically deepening ‘interaction capacity’ – or inter-polity connectivity – has formed a crucial pre-condition for the emergence of a truly global politics. Who drove increases in interaction capacity, how did they do so, and for what purposes? This paper contends that IR lacks a convincing answer to these questions and responds by theorising the role of private infrastructure builders in the making of a global international system.

Remittances, the repatriated earnings of emigrant workers, have risen spectacularly in recent decades. They are a crucial lifeline for the households that receive them and one of the largest sources of capital for developing economies, outstripping both aid and foreign direct investment. The book Money Flows studies how remittances shape the relationship between remittance recipients and the authorities in migrant-sending countries by providing a comprehensive study of the political effects of remittances on the attitudes of their recipients.

Scholarship on reputations in IR has thus far left out one of the most striking features of
human psychology: identity. Categorizing others as either “us” or “them” is an automatic
and pervasive process that has significant implications for how reputations are generated and
maintained. We provide a theoretical framework—based on social identity theory—to explain
how ingroup bias affects both how we perceive other actors’ “type” and estimate their likely
behavior; in short, their reputations. Empirically, we provide two contributions. First, we

Paper co authored with Ruofan Ma, Ph.D. candidate at Harvard.