Publications

2011 International Criminal Justice and State Sovereignty: An African Perspective Oumar Ba · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · Scholar only 1 2013 (Re) drawing the African map: a critique of the idea of secessionist deficit in Africa Oumar Ba · Air & Space Power Journal-Africa and Francophonie · Scholar only 1 2013 Review of ‘Nina Caspersen (2012) ‘Unrecognized States.’ Cambridge: Polity Press. 210pp. Oumar Ba · Political Studies Review — 2014 Francophonie: Do We Still Need an Organization of France’s Former Colonies? Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2014 Kenyatta Went to The Hague: How to Bet and Win against the (International) System Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2014 Review of George Klay Kieh and Kelechi Kalu (Eds). (2012). ‘West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror.’ Routledge, 224pp. Oumar Ba · Political Studies Review · needs review — 2015 Former LRA Commander Dominic Ongwen on Trial: Perpetrator or Victim? Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2015 How to Make Sense of the Short-Lived Coup in Burkina Faso Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2015 In the Name of Africa: Former President of Chad Hissène Habré Will Stand Trial in Senegal Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2015 Mobilizing for Elections: The Burkinabe Context. Oumar Ba · APSA Africa Workshops Newsletter — 2015 Review of William Schabas. (2012). ‘Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals.’ Oxford University Press, 240 pp. Oumar Ba · Journal of International Criminal Justice 3 2015 Should South Africa Have Arrested President Bashir? Oumar Ba · Africa Is A Country — 2015 Strikes, Protests Signal Political Uncertainty for Gabon’s Bongo Oumar Ba · World Politics Review — 2015 The Court is the Political Arena: Performance and Political Narratives at the International Criminal Court. Oumar Ba · African Journal of International Criminal Justice 9 2015 The Trials and Tribulations of Simone Gbagbo Oumar Ba · Africa Is A Country — 2016 Africa is Still Front and Center at The Hague Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2016 Gabon’s Presidential Elections: Are the Opposition’s Attempts at Unifying Too Little Too Late? Oumar Ba · African Arguments — 2016 Hissène Habré, Chad’s Former Dictator, Just Got a Life Sentence for Crimes He Committed in the 1980s. Oumar Ba · Washington Post — 2016 The Power of Prayer (on Kenya and the ICC) Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2016 Who is Laurent Gbagbo and Why Is He on Trial at the ICC? Oumar Ba · Washington Post 5 2016 Why is South Africa withdrawing from the International Criminal Court? And why now Oumar Ba · Africa is a country · Scholar only 4 2016 Why is the U.S. Defending the Honor of the International Criminal Court? Oumar Ba · Africa Is a Country — 2017 Agents of Change: How International Courts Alter International Politics. Review of Karen J. Alter. (2014). ‘The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights.’ Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 450 pp. Oumar Ba · International Studies Review 1 2017 Dislocated Narratives and Kenyan Life Fragments: Political Violence, Nationhood, and Justice in Flux. Oumar Ba · Journal of Narrative Politics 2 2017 International Justice and the Postcolonial Condition. Oumar Ba · Africa Today 33 2018 Senegal’s Art of the Unforeseen. Oumar Ba · The New York Review of Books — 2018 The Chagos Islands: Colonialism on Trial at the ICJ. Oumar Ba · Al Jazeera — 2018 What Jean Pierre Bemba’s Acquittal by the ICC Means. Oumar Ba · Al Jazeera 4 2019 Gabon’s Coup May Be Over, But Its Many Crises Are Not. Oumar Ba · African Arguments — 2019 Review of Phil Clark. (2018). ‘Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics.’ Cambridge University Press, 380 pp. Oumar Ba · The Journal of Modern African Studies 0 2019 The International Criminal Court Just Acquitted the Former Ivory Coast President: What Happens Next? Oumar Ba · The Washington Post 6 2019 Who Are the Victims of Crimes Against Cultural Heritage? Oumar Ba · Human Rights Quarterly 12 2020 Contested Meanings: Timbuktu and the Prosecution of Destruction of Cultural Heritage as War Crimes. Oumar Ba · African Studies Review 37 2020 States of Justice Symposium: A Response Oumar Ba · Opinio Juris · needs review — 2020 States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court Oumar Ba · Cambridge University Press · needs review 82 2021 A Truly International Criminal Court Oumar Ba · Foreign Affairs 4 2021 ICC Sanctions Symposium: Sanctions Gone, but Don’t Celebrate Too Quickly Oumar Ba · Opinio Juris — 2021 Race and Global Justice. Oumar Ba · International Politics Reviews 15 2021 When Teaching Is Impossible: A Pandemic Pedagogy of Care. Oumar Ba · Political Pedagogies 20 2022 Calling Ukrainian Refugees More Civilized Than Syrians Requires Willful Amnesia Oumar Ba · The Washington Post — 2022 Governing the Souls and Community: Why Do Islamists Destroy World Heritage Sites? Oumar Ba · Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17 2022 Human rights at risk: global governance, American power, and the future of dignity Oumar Ba · Rutgers University Press · Scholar only 1 2022 of Crimes against Cultural Heritage? Oumar Ba · Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of · Scholar only — 2022 Review of From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics, Adam B. Lerner (Oxford University Press, 2022), 272 pp. Oumar Ba · Global Policy — 2022 Review of Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts, Courtney Hillebrecht (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 200 pp. Oumar Ba · Ethics & International Affairs 0 2022 ‘The Europeans and Americans Don’t Know Africa’: of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction Oumar Ba · Millennium: Journal of International Studies 23 2023 Constructing an International Legal Order under The Shadow of Colonial Domination. Oumar Ba · Journal of Human Rights 17 2023 Exit From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha. Oumar Ba · Global Studies Quarterly 19 2023 Review of Delivering on Promises: The Domestic Politics of Compliance in International Courts, Lauren J. Peritz (The University of Chicago Press, 2022), 336pp. Oumar Ba · Perspectives on Politics 0 2023 The Geopolitics of Race, Empire, and Expertise at the ICC. Oumar Ba · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies 9