More: International Law
Radioactive: Illicit Materials-trafficking across the Greater Caspian
The global impact of transnational crime has risen to unprecedented levels. Criminal groups have appropriated new technologies, adapted horizontal network structures that are difficult...
Arctic Geopolitics: Future Conflict beyond the Caspian
Russia is not a littoral nation of just one great body of water in the Caspian. It also has its entire northern expanse along...
The UN Leadership Team and the Non-Aligned Movement
There is currently an active discussion among UN delegations in New York concerning the way in which the appointment of the next UN Secretary-General...
OSCE: Strains and Renewal in the Security Community
On 1 August 2015, the Helsinki Final Act, the birth certificate of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) turned 40. ...
A Legal & Cyber Minefield: An Overview of the Caspian Region
Control of the Caspian Sea has been highly sought after due to its abundance of natural resources. Nearly 3 billion gallons of crude oil...
UN Reaffirms the Safeguards for Civilians in Times of War
“Accountability for breaches of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations, as well as respect for human rights, are not obstacles to peace,...
Forced to see things no child should see – exploitation and usage of child soldiers
Between 250.000 and 300.000 is estimated number of child soldiers in the past year based on United Nations (UN) report from June this year....
“Human Experimentation” and the CIA
Thirty years after the Convention against Torture has been introduced, the world has been exposed to a damning report on CIA interrogation revealing US...
Through the eyes of a holocaust survivor
The independent news media is often silenced into submission with howls of ‘anti-Semitism’ whenever a writer criticises policies or tactics of the Israeli government....
Hypocrisy is not a four letter word
A South African court banned the President of Sudan Omar Al-Bashir from leaving the country after he had come to attend the African Union...