Soheil Ghasemi

PhDing in International Law @GVAGrad_Law | into international law, imperial and peripheral legal histories, sociology of legal expertise, Cold War, Third World.

[Soheil Ghasemi @SoheilGhB]

The dominant discourse of permanent sovereignty over natural resources, largely a remnant of the post-war decolonisation, is yet to be revisited in closer conjunction with monetary sovereignty.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Iraq has some of the world’s largest oil reserves but the money it earns doesn’t fully flow through Baghdad. Instead, a system set up after the US invasion in 2003 still gives Washington lasting leverage over Iraq's oil revenues.

Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid explains.

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“Marco Rubio’s encomiums to white Western civilization, and Hegseth’s pornographic fantasies of ‘death and destruction from the sky all day long,’ proclaim today a sadistic urge to re-impose the racial hierarchies of the nineteenth century.” —Pankaj Mishra https://t.co/0BShuSshg8

[Soheil Ghasemi @SoheilGhB]

"After two difficult weeks, the relentless bombing of Tehran and other Iranian cities makes it abundantly clear that this war has one fundamental aim: Iranicide, or the decimation of Iran."
https://t.co/okdXW1YMYf

[Soheil Ghasemi @SoheilGhB]

"Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face (...) a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it." – Jung

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth."

"They cut babies' heads off—they chop women in half..."

"I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off."

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.

[Soheil Ghasemi @SoheilGhB]

Another instance of the theatrical perversion of international legal normativity

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Melania Trump is chairing a UN Security Council meeting.

I'm not joking.

The US currently holds the presidency of the council and that's who Trump chose as chair.

[Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @Simon_W_Fuchs]

A fantastic resource for teaching and beyond! A new primary source collection of 83 translated texts on "Global History of 20th Century MENA" (edited by Cyrus Schayegh, Geneva), went online as part of Exeter University's Digital Archive of the Middle East:
https://t.co/xPRCZ290aZ

[Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb]

The CfP of next year's International Society for Intellectual History Conference in Istanbul is out, please apply! 🥰 (deadline: 15 February 2026)

[AJIL and AJIL Unbound @AJIL_andUnbound]

The latest AJIL Unbound symposium is now available online! https://t.co/ieN9yepfGt

[Lauri Mälksoo @LauriMalksoo]

My new book ‘Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law’ will come out early in November this year.

[Negar Mansouri @MansouriNegar]

1/ Out with Cambridge University Press LSE International Studies Series and open access thanks to Swiss National Science Foundation (which also generously funded the 2021 conference which led to this volume)

[Cold War Research Network @CWR_Network]

The Cold War Research Network is proud to announce the creation of the "Cold War Sources List” featuring links to primary and secondary sources for studying Cold War-related topics.

Want to know more about the Cold War Sources List? Click on the link: https://t.co/yeQD6Sryk1

[Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) @AsianSil]

📢[Join us!] Call for Papers: Asian Society of International Law, 10th Biennial Conference. Date: 9-10 Oct 2025. Venue: Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳. Theme: "Strengthening the Role of International Law in Asia". More details on the CfP here: https://t.co/DSotq9Du9r

[Geneva Graduate Institute @GVAGrad]

Today, again, multiple major outside powers are competing and/or cooperating in the #MENA region and major states are even more than in the Cold War asserting their own power.
Join our conference w/ exciting established & new voices studying the topic👇
https://t.co/kiKLV17LJO

[Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe]

1/ 🚨 New Research Alert 🚨
Grateful to the German Yearbook of International Law for publishing my article: "Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Children: Indoctrination as a Tool of Russia’s Imperialism" 🌍https://t.co/1rMbUZMi5r
🧵 A thread on the key findings below:

[Andrea Maria Pelliconi @AMPelliconi]

This paper is the outcome of a Symposium on Russia, Imperialism & International Law held by the Kiel University in 2023. The Special Issue includes another seven fantastic articles, including by excellent colleagues and good friends such as @yuliaioffe @SoheilGhB & more

[Soheil Ghasemi @SoheilGhB]

We're very grateful to the colleagues who organised and participated in the symposium (incl Eric Loefflad, André-Philippe Ouellet, @AMPelliconi & @yuliaioffe). Their insightful papers on various aspects of Russian imperialism are included in the special issue!

[Soheil Ghasemi @SoheilGhB]

Glad to share our paper, "Of Capitulations, Capital, and Collateral: Russian Imperial Banking in Late Qajar Persia (1891–1921)," co-authored with my colleague Mohammadreza Eghbalizarch, published in vol. 66 of the German Yearbook of International Law!
https://t.co/7crO8eLy1j

[Soheil Ghasemi @SoheilGhB]

Our special thanks to @MansouriNegar & @IranWonk & the GYIL's editors and reviewers for their thoughtful comments! This paper originated from the symposium ‘Russia, Imperialism, and International Law’ at the Walther Schücking Institute of International Law Sep 2023.