International Law

Serenity for Sinjar: Resiliency and Reconciliation

Ariel Harris • May 1 2021 • Essays

After the 2014 ISIS Sinjar massacre, there is an unlikely, but possible, strategy of reconciliation and reconstruction for the marginalized Yazidi people of Iraq.

Settler-Colonial Continuity and the Ongoing Suffering of Indigenous Australians

Daniel Black • Apr 25 2021 • Essays

Settler-colonialism contains an essential and continuous ‘logic of elimination.’ Seen in Australia’s treatment of indigenous population, this oppression persists today.

The European Parliament: A Genuine Co-legislator?

Meg Walters • Apr 23 2021 • Essays

The European Parliament’s role and powers have evolved throughout the years. However, it has not yet obtained the role and powers of a genuine co-legislator.

The EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: Protection For Whom?

Alexandra Pinto Damas • Apr 12 2021 • Essays

The Refugee Deal translates through a Western-dominate racialized and gendered logic of protection that does not effectively protect the refugees it targets and impacts.

The Meaning of US Drone Warfare in the War on Terror

Nico Edwards • Nov 28 2020 • Essays

Disposability can be understood as structures that manage life and the distribution of death in the interests of actors in global economic and political networks.

Greening the Seas: The Role of Business Conflict in Tightening the IMO Sulphur Cap

Andrea Aakre • Nov 24 2020 • Essays

The ability of the International Maritime Organisation to regulate shipping must be evaluated in the context of each specific issue area, and the interests that prevail here.

French Intervention in West Africa: Interests and Strategies (2013–2020)

Sudarshan Pujari • Oct 29 2020 • Essays

Recent militancy in West Africa has prompted France to abandon its indirect approach to African security in favor of more forceful military interventions.

The State of and Prospects for Space Governance: A Critical Deliberation

Finn Robinsen • Oct 26 2020 • Essays

Great Powers have actively exploited the stagnation of multilateral governance mechanisms to unilaterally shape the norms and rules of space activities.

“Checkbook Citizenship”: Renewed Relevance for the Nottebohm Ruling

Craig R. Myers • Oct 5 2020 • Essays

The Nottebohm case has seen renewed relevance in the debate over “checkbook citizenship”—which offers a fast track to a passport in exchange for investment in that state.

The Neo-Neo Debate in Understanding the Geopolitics of Outer Space

Aleena Joseph • Sep 25 2020 • Essays

The debate between neorealism and neoliberalism is gathering importance in the realm of outer space as its future can be either competitive or cooperative in nature.

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