More: International Law
Failure of international humanitarian law in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, various ethnic conflicts emerged in the post-Soviet space, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the...
Kashmir policy blinded by the territorial imperative
Born out of cataclysm in 1948, the Kashmir problem remains alive and unwell. In the latest iteration of the long self-determination struggle, 75 protesters...
April victory: How important it is for Azerbaijan
The fighting that broke out in the Karabakh conflict zone in early April 2016 was the heaviest since the 1994 ceasefire agreement between the...
The Cultural-Historical Debate behind the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (B)
What about Jews' legal rights? Israel's political rights and sovereignty over the mandated territory called 'Palestine' were favored under International Law. In 1917 Lord...
The Cultural-Historical Debate behind the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
It is so mistakenly common to refer to the "Middle East conflict" as the “Arab-Israeli conflict.” In fact, in the Middle East there are...
US Foreign Policy: Transactional or Value-Based
The 2016 elections presents a divergence in US foreign policy between the two major candidates. On one hand is the continuance of the status-quo...
The Origin and Essence of “Palestine” and “Palestinians” as political entities (B)
The Palestinian national movement has become the hostile stepsister, mainly the slayer of the Zionist national movement, and it remained until today absolutist in...
The Origin and Essence of “Palestine” and “Palestinians” as political entities (A)
“Palestine” as a territory and “Palestinians” as a people are not mentioned in the Qur'an or in the Sunnah (Hadīth and Sīrah), or in...
Abu Mazen and the Politics of Paranoia: the Creation of a Palestinian Leadership
The researchers Robins and Post have advanced the theory of political paranoia to deepen our understanding of the psycho-politics of personality. They outline seven...
China’s Crimea
The recent ruling by the international tribunal in the Hague on the deliberations between the Philippines and China over territory in the South China...