Author profile: Robbie Shilliam

Robbie Shilliam is a Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University.

The First Continental Conference on Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance

Robbie Shilliam • Dec 1 2023 • Student Features

Indigenous organising of this depth and magnitude challenges the norms and practices of state sovereignty.

The Valladolid Debate

Robbie Shilliam • Nov 25 2023 • Student Features

The Valladolid debates reflect the logic behind many recent justifications for humanitarian intervention to protect people from harm, such with the Responsibility to Protect.

Discovery, Conquest and Colonialism

Robbie Shilliam • Mar 27 2022 • Online resources

The ‘conquest’ and ‘discovery’ associated with 1492 might contain deeper-determining norms and practices than those of ‘non-intervention’ and ‘sovereignty’ associated with 1648.

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