International Law
Is the International Order Tilting Toward an Era of Permanent Tensions?
The world is entering an era where conflict is no longer an exception but has become a permanent thread running through international relations. In...
The High-Level Charade: Why Summits Talk More Than They Solve
The United Nations General Assembly marked the 80th anniversary of its establishment in September 2025, and reforming the Security Council in addition to financial...
The UN at 80: Can the Global South Break the Old Order?
The United Nations stands at a "make-or-break crossroads." The warning from the 80th UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock still echoes. She stressed that...
The Remaking of the International Order
For the first time since 1945, the liberal international order is being replaced by a fractured world between the West and the Global South....
The Internal Dilemmas of BRICS: Delivery Gaps and Limits to South–South Solidarity
Symbolism and Stagnation
“BRICS in the international system: very relevant countries, but a group of limited importance.” (Viola, 2015)
In 2009, BRICS held its first leaders’...
At 80, the U.N. Doesn’t Need a Celebration — It Needs an Intervention
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly commenced this week not with a triumphant fanfare, but with a quiet, procedural hum: a...
A Direct Challenge to UNGA’s ‘Better Together’ Vision
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened on 9 September 2025 with the theme “Better together: 80 years and more...
The origins of Covid-19 under international law and the certainty of the next pandemic
It's been more than 2,000 days since Covid-19 appeared in late 2019 growing to more than 700 million cases and at least 7 million...
Advisory Opinion of the ICJ on Climate Change: The dawn of a new era?
On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released a highly anticipated and widely debated Advisory Opinion on the obligations of states in...
Shifting Centers of Power: Toward a Post-Westphalian World Order
Authors: Griffin Thompson and Morgan D. Bazilian*
As the Russian-Ukraine war stretches into prolonged conflict and the Israeli-Hamas war viciously spirals into cross-border conflicts, a...