Elena Cirkovic

Elena Cirkovic is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute – Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Helsinki University.

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The earth system, hydrosphere, and outer space: Cosmo-legal approaches

The law is an example of human design, which has imposed anthropocentric interests on everything considered non-human. With the example of the relationship between law, orbital space, and water, the...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Russia, international law, and the melting of the Arctic

The melting ice in the polar caps is one of humanity’s contemporary ecological anxieties. Climate change scientists have suggested that there is a high likelihood that the Arctic sea ice...

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Exceptionality and context

The present Turkish military interventions in Syria and northern Iraq continue to raise the question of when States may use defensive force against armed non- State actors in other States....