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Geography remains Iran’s greatest wartime advantage and a key strategic asset in the ongoing 2026 conflict. The country’s rugged terrain, extensive coastline, and strategic depth in the Persian Gulf shape...

In the opening months of the Gaza Genocide, and more specifically in November 2023, the Bloomberg New Economy Forum convened. An annual conference linking world economics to contemporary issues, crises,...

It is a foundational premise of international legal theory that law between states operates through consent, reciprocity, and the sustained practice of interaction that generates customary norms. Unlike domestic legal...

Lys Kulamadayil's The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (TPP) offers a fundamental reconstruction of how international law is constitutive of – rather than merely responsive to – the...

This piece engages with Lys Kulamadayil’s analysis of the so-called “pathology of plenty” by focusing on two aspects that emerge as particularly significant in the governance of natural resources. On...

Lys Kulamadayil’s The Pathology of Plenty gives a critical account of the role of international law in governing natural resources, primarily those of the Global South. While readers might be...

The current moment in West Asia is marked by a profound and escalating destabilization. Entire urban areas are being flattened through sustained bombardment. This material destruction is accompanied by increasingly...

Since February 2022, the Russian Federation’s military action against Ukraine has been characterised, with unusual clarity, as a violation of one of the most fundamental norms of the international legal...

In the early post-Cold-War years, writing about the “funeral march” of the twentieth-century history, Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller penned, “Man-inflicted apocalypse is the parody of apocalypse. […] Men are envious...

In der Schweiz wird es als nahezu selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, dass wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte (WSK-Rechte) grundsätzlich nicht justiziabel sind. Während bürgerliche und politische Rechte – etwa die Meinungsfreiheit –...

The recent Advisory Opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice (the Court) on the obligations of statBlog es in relation to climate change (AO) has been hailed by the...

“If you want to say something and have people listen, then you have to wear a mask”. This quote, attributed to Banksy, encapsulates the street artist’s philosophy. For Banksy, anonymity...

“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI, [...] we will become an ‘AI-first’ warfighting...

In early 2026, Bellingcat, an open source research collective, published an investigation regarding ‘lion cub’ propaganda in the ongoing Sudanese civil war. It shows that both parties to the conflict...

Over the past two years, international courts have entered the climate arena with unusual force. Advisory opinions from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Court...

A Proposal to Strengthen Gender Equality by Understanding Economic Violence and Dependency in International Law “Economic violence against women and girls was one of the forms of gender-based violence that...

On March 6, 2026, an incident seemingly ripped from a poorly written crime thriller created the premises for new diplomatic friction between Hungary and Ukraine. Hungarian authorities intercepted two Ukrainian armored...

In international law, the development of legal theories has always been a political weapon. The developments in recent months have further intensified the drama of the debates within the field...

Theoriebildung war im Völkerrecht schon immer ein politisches Kampfinstrument. Die Entwicklungen der vergangenen Monate haben die Dramatik der Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der Völkerrechtswissenschaft nochmals verschärft. Eine jüngst in den USA stattgefundene,...

On April 3, 1946, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’ or ‘the Court’) held its first ever meeting. The Court’s 80th birthday offers an opportunity to reflect upon what the...

Is it immoral to be in debt? When can debt be odious? Hendrik Simon discusses these questions with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt, a genealogy of the morality...

In recent years, the selective compliance and the repeated non-compliance of parties with provisional measures at the International Court of Justice have dented the legitimacy of the Court (see further...

On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations,...