What is the role of the (legal) intellectual in social transformation today, amid escalating environmental and economic injustice, and the rise of racist regimes worldwide? How should the tactics of third world anti-imperialists evolve amid the disintegration of US power and the mass suffering inflicted by the death throes of US imperialist and capitalist hegemony? While international laws and institutions have contributed to structuring and reproducing suffering across the global south, what role (if any) can law play towards structuring a world order for peace and ecological stability based on respectful interrelations? Vijay Prashad discussed these issues and more with Usha Natarajan and John Reynolds online on 23 April 2025.
Join us online on 23 April 2025 for a conversation with Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.
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A roundtable discussion involving Sumedha Choudhury, Julia Dehm, André Dao, Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce, Adil Hasan Khan, Tanvee Nandan, Dianne Otto and Saika Sabir, expressing their indebtedness to the Palestinian scholars they had read together.
A resource for anyone researching, teaching or writing about international law’s impacts, iniquities and incapacities in Palestine.
This video essay by Ruth Buchanan and Olaoluwa Oni is a film about what the films and other visual materials on the SDGs suggest about the hierarchies that organize the modern international order.
Petition calling on the international community, particularly the United States, to use its influence and authority to force Israel to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical personnel and patients detained at Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza.
Jasmin Lilian Diab delves into the deceptive use of the term ‘evacuation’ in modern warfare, where it often masks forced displacement and population expulsion. Highlighting the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict as a prime example, the author argues that this language manipulation not only distorts the truth but also shields perpetrators from accountability for war crimes and human rights abuses.
Issue 5 is out now, including articles on Bob Marley, the neoliberal transformation of the Indian state, teaching international economic law in Africa, children of African Irish descent, settler colonial logics in Nigeria, transnational labour mobility + 2 key TWAIL texts now in Spanish.
Scholars and practitioners of international law, international relations, conflict studies, politics and genocide studies call for the Israeli state to be unseated from the UN General Assembly.