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Out of the UK 🇬🇧 for a few weeks and came back to see some of the familiar consumption items on supermarket shelves increased price by at least 15% - don’t see where the supposed ‘inflation coming down’ is happening.

Thrilled to have this piece published with the Yale Journal of International Law, co-authored with Obiora C. Okafor. Part of a seminar on Third World Approaches to Int'l Law and Economic Sanctions. It is available open-access: yjil.yale.edu/humanizing-eco…

The Mogadishu government asked Ethiopian troops to leave, thinking they'd comply. Instead, thousands more Ethiopian soldiers entered Somalia. Their message: we are here for our national interests and there is nothing you can do. thesomalidigest.com/more-ethiopian…

I would like to share with y'all some recent work on economic sanctions and globalization that I've published in a few places. A 🧵 1/n

In the essay's final sections, I turn to work by Obiora C. Okafor Nathanael Tilahun @LeclercqDesiree & work on humanitarian norms (h/t Scott Paul) that help us think about what "new" norms for neutrality in economic warfare might look like. See also: x.com/nat_tilahun/st… 10/n

Some staggering stats on sanctions

So many of our immigrant families and friends in US who were scared to death of DJT’s first arrival in 2016 now voted for him - and the lesson we take 8 years later is still a version of the ‘deplorables’ story?! Not even rampant inflation? Or wars? Or Dem complicity in Gaza…

While waiting for the 'grand regulatory moment for economic sanctions' as Ben Heath & Elena Chachko put it, a few of us did the intermediate job of preparing a humanitarian checklist to inject some ethics on sanctions. ahsrproject.org/2024/10/08/a-m…

Very much looking forward to discussing human rights sanctions in an interdisciplinary setting at the LSE this Friday! thank you Yifan JIA for the invitation.

Peak academia? I’d love to be a subject of a Reuters news story on my own like Iva Iva Vukusic also over @vukusiciva.bsky.social :)

This is not just another The Daily Show episode, its a conversation between two fabulous thinkers. Oren Cass - Understanding Trump Tariffs Through the Lens of “The New Con... youtu.be/vgEQeLR-M0g?si… via YouTube