International Law

Impotent leadership at the United Nations

The United Nations, an organization of governments created in 1945 following World War II, was meant to foster international cooperation between members and prevent...

Forces that Create Refugees and Migrants

Current refugee-migrant flows (from Burma and Bangladesh toward Thailand and Malaysia and across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East toward Europe) have...

The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea- Current Challenges and Prospects for Future Development, Barbara Janusz- Pawletta (Springer- 2015- 176 pages) “Is it possible...

What does it mean to be an emerging power?

This might be a tricky question to ask nowadays, but there are theories that help us understand better the role of emerging powers in...

World powers must abandon double standard policies

Ms. Najiba Mustafayeva, PhD candidate in International Law, Expert at the Center for Strategic Studies (SAM) under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan,...

The OIC Does Defend, Not Suppress, Freedom of Expression

On 12 January 2015, Robert C. Blitt wrote on the USA Today, “Powerful, mainstream Muslim groups must recognize they’re breeding religious intolerance”. He argued...

Perpetuating Chaos and Lawlessness in Middle East: Saudi’s Invasion of Yemen

Wednesday evening Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States announced that Saudi Arabia had commenced military operations against the Ansarullah fighters of...

The BRICS bank: Future of Finances

Few disputed the unfair weightings in the IMF and World Bank of the BRICS companies. But Rajat Nag, a former Managing Director of the...

Cyberspace and Underworld

Legal frameworks, institutional provisions, different forms of cyberspace and of cybercrime underworld, non-governmental and state actors, costs evaluation, basic ethical issues on piracy –...

Has the EU turned its back to ECHR?

Who is the supreme human rights judge in Europe? Up to 18 December 2014, it was taught or hoped to be...

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