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A selection of published articles, news, updates, and blog posts.

18 February 2021

Essay in De Groene: Lessons from war and from pandemics

We commemorate wars and genocides, but our collective memory seems unfit to remember other catastrophes like pandemics. An essay about learning from the past.

29 January 2021

Analysis: How to enforce the Uyghur genocide recognition

Following the US administration’s recognition of the genocide against the Uyghur minority in China, the government, businesses, and the international community need to take concrete steps.

5 January 2021

Op-ed in Dutch daily Trouw on the need for a more realistic picture of war

‘Such sensibility is the sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed’ (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace). My piece for Dutch daily Trouw.

14 December 2020

Attention for Yezidi genocide is waining as focus on perpetrators grows

Six years after the genocide against the Yezidi minority in Iraq, media attention and political willingness to act is waining. Why?

9 November 2020

Turkish foreign policy and the troubles for NATO and the EU

Turkey pursues an increasingly agressive foreign policy and threatens international cooperation in NATO and the EU. My analysis of the situation appeared in the Dutch monthly paper De Kanttekening.

19 October 2020

Book review: Dutch membership of the Security Council

For the Dutch Review of Books, I reviewed the (former) Dutch UN ambassador’s book on the Netherlands’ membership of the Security Council.

25 September 2020

International law analysis for LTO: Holding Syria accountable

I wrote for Legal Tribune Online (LTO), Germany’s leading online magazine for lawyers, about the Dutch initiative to hold Syria accountable.

22 September 2020

Quoted by JusticeInfo on Dutch case against Syria

For JusticeInfo I provided some legal and diplomatic context on the decision of the Dutch government to hold the Syrian state accountable for torture.

17 August 2020

Quoted by DW on Lebanon

I commented on the upcoming verdict of the Lebanon tribunal in an analysis of international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW).

31 July 2020

Review of “World Peace (And How We Can Achieve It)”

For the Global Policy journal I reviewed Alex J. Bellamy’s thoughtfull book “World Peace (And How We Can Achieve It)”.

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