Reconciliation in Transitional and Post-conflict Societies: Healing or Impunity?
Reconciliation is more meaningful when viewed as a transformative process which favours a restorative notion of justice, rather than as merely another word for impunity.
US-China Relations in Cyberspace: The Benefits and Limits of a Realist Analysis
Offensive realism provides a useful framework for considering the national security rivalry in cyberspace and illuminates the current security competition.
What Moral Justifications Can There Be For Ever Allowing Killing In Wartime?
The principle of self-defence that can allow for just killing does not hold in the context of war, based on the notion that we should assume that all combatants are just.
The Zika Outbreak: A Public Health Challenge Highlighting Structural Power
The current outbreak of Zika virus disease, centred in Brazil, highlights the population-level fears that can arise in response to infectious disease pandemics.
Why Is It So Difficult to Fight Human Trafficking?
Beyond issues of data scarcity and legally defining trafficking, there are inadequate measures to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent trafficking.
A Framework Convention on Global Health: A Step to Better Health for All
There should be an effective global right to health and it would be worthwhile for states to negotiate and ratify a Framework Convention on Global Health.
Why Have Resolutions of the UN General Assembly If They Are Not Legally Binding?
Even though UNGA resolutions enjoy a limited legal status, they have a powerful symbolic and political impact, and they help influence contemporary international law.
A Whig History of European Integration?
The inescapability of Whig history lies not in the irreversibility of the European project but in the political necessity of its narrative construction.
Mandate Disclosure in EU Trade Negotiations: The Case of TiSA
The publication of TiSA’s negotiating mandate represents an effort to increase transparency, used by negotiators as a stepping stone towards expanding the EU’s win-set.
The Legality of Russian Airstrikes in Syria and ‘Intervention by Invitation’
Examining the legality of Russia’s claim of ‘intervention by invitation’ & the validity of such a principle when a country fails to respect norms of international law.
