International Law

Non-Proliferation Treaty At 50: An Analysis

The bipolar world ended with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and after witnessing a unipolar world for around two decades, the world is entering into...

The Struggle for Power, Profits and Prestige in the International System

In today's world, great powers are the most influential members of the international system. The impression of great power plays a significant role in the theory...

United Nations Security Council’s failure to redress the Rohingya refugee crisis

Authors: Tanaya Thakur and Amit Kumar* The issue of violence against Rohingya muslims in the Rakhine state of Myanmar has been a cause for global as...

OHCHR’s intervention in Citizenship Amendment Act: An opportunity to expand the Indian human rights discourse

Author’s: Tanaya Thakur and Amit Kumar* The office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has sought permission from the Supreme Court of India to...

Not a pretty picture: The contours of a new world order are on your tv screen

Television news summarizes daily what a new world order shaped by civilisationalists entails. Writer William Gibson’s assertion that “the future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed”...

The Exclusive Maritime Economic Zones in the Mediterranean

Nowadays all coastal countries are taking action at maritime level by creating Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) and this happens also in the already crowded Mediterranean, thus...

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

FATF is an independent and inter-governmental organization, which was established in 1989 by G7 countries (UK, France, United States, Germany, Canada, Italy, and Japan) .It is formed...

Fundamental legacy of The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials (1945-1948)

These – rather unfortunate – days some voices in Europe are trying, in a quite a historical fashion, to question the very fundaments of the antifascist...

When Life Imitates Art

Authors: Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler* The movie Wag the Dog was released a generation ago, one month before a presidential scandal which invited comparisons...

Killing Qassim Soleimani: Rule of law or rule of the jungle?

International law may not be a major consideration in debates about the US killing of Iranian military commander Qassim Soleimani, yet the legality of the assassination...

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