When Does the Obligation to Comply with Provisional Measures End?

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When Does the Obligation to Comply with Provisional Measures End?

28.10.2024

Johannes Tropper

In the pending case of Allegations of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation) before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the question arises as to the effect of the ICJ’s partial...

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

Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself

13.06.2024

Johannes Socher

Five years into the submission of my doctoral thesis and three years after the publication of “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space”, Polina Kulish’s and Tero...

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

Zombie Self-Determination?

12.06.2024

Bill Bowring

As part of our mission to foster OA, we regularly collaborate with publishers and journals. For this review symposium, Bill Bowring’s review ‘Zombie Self-Determination?’ of Johannes Socher’s monograph ‘Russia and...

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

A Journey for Understanding (Part II)

12.06.2024

Polina Kulish Tero Lundstedt

This is Part II of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part I...

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

A Journey for Understanding (Part I)

11.06.2024

Polina Kulish Tero Lundstedt

This is Part I of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part II...

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

Lingering at the Borders of an Argument

11.06.2024

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
Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

In the Tenth Year of the War

02.05.2024

Timothy William Waters

In 2014, I was invited to write a post on Ukraine. Everyone understood Ukraine’s crisis mattered, and wouldn’t be short, so I wrote three. Instead of discussing doctrinal unniceties, I...

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Targeting the Assets of the Russian Central Bank

22.04.2024

Valentin von Stosch

In response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, western States have frozen around €250bn worth of assets of the Russian Central Bank (RCB). More than two years after the invasion, scholars...

Media

How to Undermine a Fundamental Norm: The Prohibition of the Use of Force in Light of the 2023 G20 Summit Outcome Document

29.01.2024

Alexander Grimmig

In this episode of the Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen, the speaker, Alexander Grimmig, takes a look at the 2023’s G20 summit outcome document and comparing it to the previous year. The speaker...

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Extraordinary, Extraterritorially

13.12.2023

Moritz Rhades

It is well known that the European Union (EU) uses its economic levers to maximize pressure on the Russian Federation. In order to reach its goals, the EU not merely...

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Taking Care of Other People’s History?

08.11.2023

Eric Rücker Kai Budelmann

In October 2022, Russian military vehicles pulled up in Kherson, then occupied by the Russian armed forces to surround and secure two buildings. This raid was not a counter-resistance operation...

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A ‘Clear’ War Crime Against the Environment?

28.07.2023

Aaron Dumont

On the morning of June 6, 2023, the first news agencies reported that the Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled area in southern Ukraine was destroyed. The spilling water masses...

Media

Atom-Bombs in Belarus: Russia’s New Approach to Nuclear-Sharing and the NPT

03.05.2023

Daniel McCarthy

The objective of the presentation is to discuss Russia’s plans to station nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. Putting the focus on an evaluation of the recently announced plan’s legality under...

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Russia‘s Withdrawal from New START

01.03.2023

Philipp Sauter

Following US President Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv, Russian President Putin announced on 21 February 2023 the withdrawal from the New START Treaty – the last bilateral nuclear disarmament treaty...

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Military Success > Global Food Security

20.02.2023

Teresa Weiß

"The right to food is not the right to be nourished, but first and foremost the right to nourish oneself in dignity from one's own resources", Jean Ziegler However, the...

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Questions of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia

27.01.2023

Gaiane Nuridzhanian

On 25 January 2023, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its decision on the admissibility of the interstate complaints lodged by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia in relation...

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Self-Determination as Faux Remedial Secession in Russia’s Annexation Policies

26.01.2023

Andrea Maria Pelliconi

“Circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help. In this regard … I decided to conduct...

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How ‘Nazis’ Stole the New Year

22.12.2022

Anastasiia Vorobiova

Several concerns have been raised about memory politics in Russia turning the memory of World War II (WWII) into an instrument that set the stage for the current war in...

Article

The Sham “Referenda” at Gunpoint

20.10.2022

Katharina Parameswaran

Despite ongoing fighting in the four partly occupied Ukrainian regions Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, “referenda” were held between 23 and 27 September 2022 under farcical modalities. Ballots were collected...

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On Ceasefire Agreements and (Counter)Offensives

23.09.2022

Victor Santos Mariottini De Oliveira

On September 13th 2022, hostilities broke out once again along the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia in connection with the long-lasting dispute for Nagorno-Karabakh. Reports estimate that heavy artillery shelling...

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What Needs to Be Said

16.09.2022

Maximilian Bertamini Tillmann Lindner

It seems these days that international law and its institutions are unable to keep power at bay. In recent times, the UN Security Council (SC) – one member in particular...

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Imploding Protection Through Exploding Norms?

12.08.2022

Will Wright

On August 4th 2022, Amnesty International published a report criticising the tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) for endangering civilians by launching attacks and placing military targets in populated...

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No Purchase, No Requisition, No Seizure

27.07.2022

Tillmann Lindner

Grain plays a crucial role in the war in Ukraine. Not only is Russia blocking Ukrainian grain exports and thereby causing a risk of a world-wide food crisis. In addition,...

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#16 Krieg in der Ukraine

01.04.2022

Erik Tuchtfeld Sophie Schuberth Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen

Russland hat die Ukraine angegriffen. Wir besprechen in dieser Folge, was das für das Völkerrecht bedeutet. Isabel Lischewski erklärt im Grundlagenteil, wann der Internationale Gerichtshof für Streitigkeiten zwischen Staaten...