Irene Fernández-Molina
Senior lecturer International Relations, University of Exeter | IR Global South, foreign policy, conflicts, international recognition, norms and practices, Maghreb, EU-MENA | Views mine
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- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaC'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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- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaLooking 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!
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaAsylum is not "illegal migration" Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaC'est ici qu'on peut voir le Colloque : la Palestine et l'Europe, poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaFascinating 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.
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-Molina📣 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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- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaOpen 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...
- 👇 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
- In open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaIs 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...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaNew 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
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-Molina#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
- Bienvenido CEARC, nuevo centro de estudios sobre el mundo árabe orientado hacia la comunidad investigadora y el público hispanohablante en Europa y América Latina
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaReally 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.
- Congratulations to @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social from @cais-exeter.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva yesterday. Yazid explored legacies of colonial policing & migration in Europe & N.Africa Thanks to examiners @fionaadamson.bsky.social & Martin Thomas, and lead supervisor @irenefmolina.bsky.social
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-Molina🇹🇳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
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaHappy 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/...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaIsrael 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
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaDelighted 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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- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaLos 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...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaNEW: 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.
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaMy colleagues and I tried to grapple with similar questions last year in this @gsqjournal.bsky.social Special Forum academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic....
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-Molina🚨 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.
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaFunded 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.
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaStarmer's Britain. Not even subtle.
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaMust 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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- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaThe 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...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaJob 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...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaLlega #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
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaHappy International Women’s Day from Rosa Luxemburg and me ✊❤️!
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaAmazing 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...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaWhat 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...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaDelighted 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
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaEWIS workshop to be led by two Exeter CAIS colleagues @irenefmolina.bsky.social @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social
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📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between - 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
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaArticle 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...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaOur @cais-exeter.bsky.social colleague Bice Maiguashca doing amazing work: "Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser" Nancy Fraser, Bice Maiguashca, and Charles Masquelier (2024) #int-rel #poltheory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaIf you’re looking to catch up on scholarly work on Syria, I’ve posted a number of reading lists over the years. Here’s one, featuring Ora Szekely’s Syria Divided and Dipali Mukhopadhyay & Kimberly Howe’s Good Rebel Governance plus another ten for background. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/wrestling-...
- Reposted by Irene Fernández-MolinaWe're hiring (in Politics)! Politics is one of six disciplines in the department of SPSPA. We're a collegial, intellectually diverse and high-acheiving bunch. The students are outstanding, mostly, and Exeter's going places as a University. Oh, and Devon is beautiful. DM me for more
