Publications

2026 Internationla Law and the Imperial Ordering of the International Oumar Ba · Verfassungblog 0 2026 Reconciliation and the Aporia of Transitional Justice. Oumar Ba · International Studies Quarterly 0 2025 A Secretary and A Reluctant General. Review of Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations, Abiodun Williams (Oxford University Press, 2024), 200pp. Oumar Ba · International Politics 0 2025 Becoming Animal, Becoming Human: An Introduction to the Forum on Nonhuman Humanitarians, Benjamin Meiches (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), 232pp. Oumar Ba · Millennium: Journal of International Studies 0 2025 International Criminal Justice: The Future Is the Past. Oumar Ba · Journal of International Criminal Justice 1 2025 Justice Oumar Ba · Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction, Sage Publishing — 2025 Lamine Senghor, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Arab Solidarity in Interwar Paris. Oumar Ba · Souffles Monde — 2025 Race and IR Oumar Ba · Handbook of International Relations, Edward Elgar Publishing 0 2024 ‘Better than Objectivity’: Critique as Method without The Fetishization of Measurement. Oumar Ba · International Studies Review 1 2024 Lamine Senghor, Anti-Imperialism, and Racial Solidarity in the Interwar French Metropole Oumar Ba · POMEPS Studies — 2024 Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Now What? Oumar Ba · The Duck of Minerva — 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 — 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 —