More: International Law
Pushing the Boundaries? Maritime Delimitation and evolving ICJ jurisprudence on International Law of the Sea
Maritime delimitation is the process that involves "establishing lines separating from each other the maritime areas in which coastal states exercise sovereignty or jurisdiction”....
Unilateral vs Bilateral Euroisation: Political, technical and practical issues in the curious case of north Cyprus
The island of Cyprus has been split between a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish Cypriot north since 1974. The Turkish Cypriot state declared...
How can Iran be assured of the commitment of future US administrations to the nuclear deal?
In the final days of 2021, the eighth round of Vienna talks have been begun. Earlier, Ali Bagheri, Iran's chief negotiator, traveled to Moscow,...
Middle East: Positive steps needed to restore calm
The deteriorating security situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, took centre stage at the Security Council on Tuesday as the UN...
Cyprus: Turkish Occupation and Unpunished Crimes Against Women and Children
On December 16 and 17, Democracy Today, an NGO that focuses on human rights issues, organized its annual international conference in Armenia's capital of...
The right to self-determination for the Kashmir “colony”
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has unanimously adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution, titled “Universal Realisation of the Right of the Peoples to Self-Determination”. It...
The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW): Wishful daydream or historic milestone?
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), adopted in 2017, has entered into force on the 22nd of January of this year...
The crisis of international law
The idea of promoting the human rights agenda in the image and likeness of the Western countries’ principles - as the repositories of Absolute...
Submarine Cables: The Global Data Infrastructure and International Law of the Sea
As a lay person, it is a common perception that data and communication signals travel through multiple satellite systems orbiting around the earth. However,...
The unending dilemma of nuclear deterrence and the global nuclear governance
In this essay, I look into the dilemma that sovereign states have when it comes to choosing between their unofficial right to nuclear deterrence...