Articles

Ba, Oumar. 2025. “International Criminal Justice: The Future Is the Past.” Journal of International Criminal Justice 23 (1), DOI: 10.1093/jicj/mqae053

 Ba, Oumar. 2024. “‘Better than Objectivity’: Critique as Method without The Fetishization of Measurement.” International Studies Review 26 (3): viae034_3

Ba, Oumar. 2023. “Exit From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha.” Global Studies Quarterly 3 (3): ksad047.

Ba, Oumar, K.Jo Bluen, and Owiso Owiso. "The Geopolitics of Race, Empire, and Expertise at the ICC." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.717

Ba, Oumar. 2023. “Constructing an International Legal Order under The Shadow of Colonial Domination.” Journal of Human Rights, 22(1): 4-15

Ba, Oumar. 2022. “‘The Europeans and Americans Don’t Know Africa’: of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 50(2): 548-560

Ba, Oumar. 2022. “Governing the Souls and Community: Why Do Islamists Destroy World Heritage Sites?” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 35(1): 73-90

Ba, Oumar. 2021. “Global Justice and Race.” International Politics Reviews, 9: 375-389

Ba, Oumar. 2020. “Contested Meanings: Timbuktu and the Prosecution of Destruction of Cultural Heritage as War Crimes.” African Studies Review, DOI:10.1017/asr.2020.16

Ba, Oumar. 2020. “When Teaching Is Impossible: A Pandemic Pedagogy of Care.” PS: Political Science & Politics, DOI:10.1017/S104909652000150X

Ba, Oumar. 2019. “Who Are the Victims of Crimes Against Cultural Heritage?” Human Rights Quarterly,41(3): 578-595.

Ba, Oumar. 2017. “International Justice and the Postcolonial Condition.” Africa Today, 63(4): 45-62.

Ba, Oumar. 2017. “Dislocated Narratives and Kenyan Life Fragments: Political Violence, Nationhood, and Justice in Flux.” Journal of Narrative Politics, 3(2): 108-119.

Ba, Oumar. 2015. “The Court is the Political Arena: Performance and Political Narratives at the International Criminal Court.” African Journal of International Criminal Justice, 1(2): 174-189.

Book Reviews

Ba, Oumar. 2025. “Race and IR” in Cameron Thies (Ed.), Handbook of International Relations, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Ba, Oumar. 2025. “Justice” in Felix Brenskoetter (Ed.), Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction, Sage Publishing

Ba, Oumar. 2022. “Who Are the Victims of Crimes Against Cultural Heritage?” in Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. and Irene Hadiprayitno (Eds.), Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and The Future of Dignity, Rutgers University Press

Ba, Oumar and Mauro Caraccioli. 2025. “Becoming Animal, Becoming Human: An Introduction to the Forum on Nonhuman Humanitarians, Benjamin Meiches (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), 232pp.” Millenium: Journal of International Studies DOI: 10.1177/03058298251378366

Ba, Oumar. 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.” International PoliticsDOI: 10.1057/s41311-024-00662-w

Ba, Oumar. 2023. “Review of Delivering on Promises: The Domestic Politics of Compliance in International Courts, Lauren J. Peritz (The University of Chicago Press, 2022), 336pp.” Perspectives on Politics, 21 (4): 1533-1534

Ba, Oumar. 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.” Global Policy, 2 December.

Ba, Oumar. 2022. “Review of Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts, Courtney Hillebrecht (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 200 pp.” Ethics & International Affairs, 36(3): 393-396

Ba, Oumar. 2019. “Review of Phil Clark. (2018). ‘Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics.’ Cambridge University Press, 380 pp.” Journal of Modern African Studies. [forthcoming]

Ba Oumar. 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. International Studies Review, 19 (2): 322-324.

Ba, Oumar. 2015. “Review of William Schabas. (2012). ‘Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals.’ Oxford University Press, 240 pp.” Journal of International Criminal Justice, 13 (1): 199-200.

Ba, Oumar. 2014. “Review of George Klay Kieh and Kelechi Kalu (Eds). (2012). ‘West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror.’ Routledge, 224pp.”Political Studies Review: 12 (2)

Ba, Oumar. 2013. “Review of ‘Nina Caspersen (2012) ‘Unrecognized States.’ Cambridge: Polity Press. 210pp.” Political Studies Review: 11 (1).

Short Pieces

Ba, Oumar. 2025. “Lamine Senghor, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Arab Solidarity in Interwar Paris.” Souffles Monde 4

Ba, Oumar. 2024. “Lamine Senghor, Anti-Imperialism, and Racial Solidarity in the Interwar French Metropole’, POMEPS Studies 52: 12-16

Ba, Oumar “A Truly International Criminal Court”, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021

Ba, Oumar “ICC Sanctions Symposium: Sanctions Gone, but Don’t Celebrate Too Quickly”, Opinio Juris, 19 April 2021        

Ba, Oumar “States of Justice Symposium: A Response”, Opinio Juris, 21 August 2020

Ba, Oumar “African States and the International Criminal Court”, Bulletin FrancoPaix, 5 (2)

Ba, Oumar “Les États africains et la Cour pénale internationale”, Bulletin FrancoPaix 5 (2)

Ba, Oumar “The International Criminal Court Just Acquitted the Former Ivory Coast President: What Happens Next?” The Washington Post, 22 January 2019

Ba, Oumar “Gabon’s Coup May Be Over, But Its Many Crises Are Not.” African Arguments, 8 January 2019

Ba, Oumar and Kelly-Jo Bluen “The Chagos Islands: Colonialism on Trial at the ICJ.” Al Jazeera, 12 September 2018

Ba, Oumar “Senegal’s Art of the Unforeseen.” The New York Review of Books, 21 June 2018

Ba, Oumar “What Jean Pierre Bemba’s acquittal by the ICC means.” Al Jazeera, 13 June 2018

Ba, Oumar “Hissène Habré, Chad’s former dictator, just got a life sentence for crimes he committed in the 1980s.” Washington Post, June 1, 2016

Ba, Oumar “Gabon’s presidential elections: are the opposition’s attempts at unifying too little too late?” African Arguments, August 22, 2016

Ba, Oumar “Why is the U.S. defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?” Africa Is a Country, June 1, 2016

Ba, Oumar “The Power of Prayer” (on Kenya and the ICC). Africa Is a Country, April 14, 2016

Ba, Oumar “Africa is still front and center at The Hague” Africa Is a Country, February 8, 2016

Ba, Oumar “Who is Laurent Gbagbo and why is he on trial at the ICC?” Washington Post, February 3, 2016.

Ba, Oumar and Daniel Eizenga “How to Make Sense of the Short-Lived Coup in Burkina Faso” Africa Is a Country, September 27, 2015

Ba, Oumar; Eizenga, Daniel. 2015. “Mobilizing for Elections: The Burkinabe Context.” APSA Africa Workshops Newsletter, Vol. 3 (1), November 2015

Ba, Oumar “Should South Africa Have Arrested President Bashir?”Africa Is A Country, June 15, 2015.

Ba, Oumar “Strikes, Protests Signal Political Uncertainty for Gabon’s Bongo” World Politics Review, April 9, 2015

Ba, Oumar “In the Name of Africa: Former President of Chad Hissène Habré will stand trial in Senegal” Africa Is a Country, March 3, 2015

Ba, Oumar “Former LRA commander Dominic Ongwen on Trial: Perpetrator or Victim?”  Africa Is a Country, January 26, 2015.

Ba, Oumar “The Trials and Tribulations of Simone Gbagbo” Africa Is A Country [Online Magazine], January 12, 2015.

Ba, Oumar “Francophonie: Do we still need an organization of France’s former colonies?” Africa Is a Country, December 10, 2014.

Ba, Oumar “Kenyatta went to The Hague: how to bet and win against the (international) system”Africa Is a Country, October 20, 2014.