More: International Law
Military Ambitions Challenge Paracel Islands Sovereignty
The eerie silence of the ocean
When people think of the South China Sea, they usually picture deep blue waters, peaceful waves over beautiful coral...
Turkey’s Marine Parks in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean Provoke Regional Turbulence
Turkey declared mid-August by presidential decree the establishment of two marine parks beyond its territorial waters. The first marine park lies in the northeastern...
The West Bank’s Ultra-Apartheid (and the Collusive International Silence)
Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, land seizure, economic strangulation, settler violence and forced displacement.
With the collusion of the...
The Future of the ICC is reform, Not Isolation
The United States’ recent confrontation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) raises a question about international law and geopolitics that needs urgent attention. Washington...
When International Institutions Cannot Stop States from Walking Away: The IWT and the Limits of International Law
The continuing proceedings under the Indus Waters Treaty have exposed an uncomfortable contradiction at the heart of the international system: international institutions can create...
Why Is the Real Fight Over the UN Security Council Happening Outside It?
Eighteen Years, Zero Texts
On July 28, the UN General Assembly did what it has done every year since the effort began: it rolled Security...
Why the Shadow Fleet’s Baltic Reckoning Won’t Look Like the Mediterranean’s
On August 2nd, Italian commandos rappelled from a helicopter onto the deck of the Toa Payoh, a Russian-linked crude carrier, in the Mediterranean. It...
In Defense of Democracy: What My Case Reveals About a Wider Danger
Democracy is not exhausted by the periodic holding of elections. It rests, above all, on the survival of the institutions that allow the will...
The Privatisation of War and the International Law to Combat It
Modern conflicts are not just waged by state sponsored armed forces. In the last two decades there has been a rapid growth in the...
Washington and Tehran Now Agree that Sea is Billable
On July 14 the crews of the Mombasa and the Al Bahiyah found out. Two UAE-flagged tankers were hit by Iranian cruise missiles in...