Christian Pogies

Christian R. J. Pogies is a Doctoral Student in the Department Historical Regimes of Normativity (Blog: Legal History Insights) at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. He is an editor at Völkerrechtsblog.

Book Review
Symposium
Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

Lingering at the Borders of an Argument

Christian Pogies Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Any claim to the Right to Self-Determination is an exercise in reconsidering “belonging” under international law. Akin to a prism, it draws our attention to the contact zones between international...

Symposium
Media
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth

Returning ‘To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth’

Martti Koskenniemi Ankit Malhotra Christian Pogies Hendrik Simon

Following the Völkerrechtsblog symposium on Martti Koskenniemi’s new book, our editorial board members Christian Pogies and Hendrik Simon were invited by Ankit Malhotra of the Jindal Society of International Law...

Symposium
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth

Legal Imagination as Bricolage

Christian Pogies Hendrik Simon

The publication of Martti Koskenniemi’s new book marks a much-anticipated event among scholars working on the Theory and History of International Law. This may come as little surprise, given that...

Symposium
Rewarding in International Law

From Sticks to Carrots?

Justine Batura Veronika Fikfak Christian Pogies

A new article on how States could be encouraged to comply with international law promises to revolutionize how we think about incentives in international relations. In ‘Rewarding in International Law’,...

Book Review
Symposium
The Battle for International Law

Worthy of the “increasingly global perspective”?

Christian Pogies

Considering the debates on current backlashes against international law and the international rule of law, the matter of a peaceful ocean governance has come under pressure. This is due not...

Book Review
Symposium
Interview
The Battle for International Law

“‘The West’ might not exist anymore”

Christian Pogies Anna-Julia Saiger Sebastian M. Spitra

This interview is the beginning of a book symposium on Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann´s edited volume on The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era...

#Ö: Our own News

Introducing Völkerrechtsblog 3.0

Raffaela Kunz Christian Pogies Erik Tuchtfeld

Welcome to Völkerrechtsblog 3.0! We are very happy to introduce you to our completely redesigned and modernized website. Six years into its existence, Völkerrechtsblog receives a new logo and design...

Symposium
Cynical International Law

An ideal at sea

Christian Pogies

International law is supposed to establish peace and prevent inter-state conflicts. At the same time, it is the central means for states to legitimize and communicate their claims in respect...

Interview

With a diplomatic solution, there would be no loser.

Christian Pogies Rüdiger Wolfrum

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important waterways worldwide. Nearly one fifth of the global transport of oil and about one quarter of the production of liquefied...

Interview

Bei einer diplomatischen Lösung gibt es keinen Verlierer

Christian Pogies Rüdiger Wolfrum

Die Straße von Hormus ist einer der wichtigsten Wasserwege. Knapp ein Fünftel der globalen Öl-Transporte und etwa ein Viertel der weltweiten Produktion von Flüssiggas passieren jährlich die wenige Kilometer breite...