Hey there!

My name is Oscar Martínez-Taveras, and I’m a foreign policy work and international legal history nerd. In the quarantine period of the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to create a space where I can store my thoughts and reflections of working in and studying international politics. In this blog, I explore ideas, lessons, and experiences of my education and professional experiences in the field.

Interested in international law, foreign policy, human rights, international history, and occasionally terrible jokes that probably only I will laugh at? Of course you are, why else would you be here!

Tag along as we discover…

the intricacies of the international system,

United Nations Security Council

AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, POLAND 1945

the weight of our past,

The work we have yet to do.


…man was created alone to teach you that whoever kills one life kills the world entire, and whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”

paraphrased from the Talmud, US Holocaust Memorial Museum