Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions

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Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions

30.10.2024

Franka Weckner

Over the past few months, visitors to Cairo have encountered an unusual sight: once-bustling fast-food chains like McDonald's and KFC now stand eerily empty. Similar scenes have been reported in other Muslim-majority...

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Adding to the List

24.07.2024

Moritz Rhades

International support for Israel has been declining in light of the duration and scale of its military offensive in Gaza. Recent events have contributed to this trend, culminating in the...

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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...

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An Instrument of Extortion?

31.01.2024

Ole-Christian Tech

On August 6th 2020, US senators drafted an open letter threatening German companies involved in constructing the new gas pipeline Nord Stream II with sanctions. Nord Stream II is the...

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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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From Grotius to von der Leyen

11.12.2023

Dawit Frick Benedikt Leidner

Sanctions have been on the forefront of media coverage for some time now. Just this 26th November, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on a Russian couple facing prosecution in Munich over...

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Should Third States Follow Ukraine’s Lead and Confiscate Russian State Assets?

19.06.2023

Artem Ripenko

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale attack against Ukraine. Reconstruction and recovery needs are estimated at over 400 billion USD. A potential source for rapid compensation is the...

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Contemporary Sanctions as a Challenge to the Doctrine of Jurisdiction

10.05.2023

Nathanael Tilahun

Contemporary sanctions based on extraterritorial control of national products and infrastructure such as currencies, high-tech products, and cyberspace are stretching established doctrines of states’ jurisdiction under international law. The presenter...

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Certain Iranian (Frozen) Assets

17.04.2023

Moritz Rhades

Mit seinem jüngsten Urteil im Streit zwischen dem Iran und den USA hat der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) dem Iran unter Heranziehung einer widersprüchlichen Maßstabsbildung den Zugang zu eingefrorenen Zentralbank-Vermögen versperrt....