The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Anti-Interventionism

Symposium
ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Anti-Interventionism

13.05.2024

Hubert Zimmermann

How have the premises and ambiguities of the Monroe Doctrine been reflected in American debates about military intervention abroad, and how did they re-appear (if at all) in current debates...

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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...

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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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...

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Interview
International Law and the Political

Beyond Black and White: Normative Ambiguities and the Delivery of Cluster Bombs

12.07.2023

Elvira Rosert Frank Sauer Hendrik Simon

Following the decision by the United States of America to provide cluster bombs to Ukraine, a contentious public and academic discourse has emerged, centering on the legality and legitimacy of...

Article

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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Heads of States Before the ICC

05.04.2023

Dilara Karmen Yaman

On the 17th of March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC, Court) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children's Rights, for...

Article

The OSCE Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

03.04.2023

Kirsten Schmalenbach Melissa Rudigier

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is currently facing unprecedented difficulties created by one of its participating States, namely Russia. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of...

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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...

Article

The Necessity of a Structural Investigation into the Cultural Genocide in Ukraine

15.02.2023

Tjorben Studt

Since the Russian invasion, both the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany have started an investigation into events in Ukraine that...

Article

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...

Article

The Violation of Ukrainian Refugees’ Right to Reproductive Self-Determination in Poland

28.11.2022

Nicola Dannenbring Chiara Rimkus

Rape and sexualized violence have been employed throughout history as weapons in armed conflicts. The ongoing Russian war against Ukraine is no exception to a long tradition of sexualized violence,...

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...

Article

Less a Wave Than a Tsunami

11.10.2022

Juliette McIntyre

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) faces an unprecedented procedural situation in the Ukraine v. Russia case, as a result of the never-before-seen number of states intervening in the case...

Article

The ICJ’s Only Friend in Ukraine v. Russia

07.10.2022

Alexander Melzer

On 18 August 2022, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’ or ‘the Court’) issued a press statement announcing that the European Union (‘EU’ or the ‘Union’) had furnished the Court...

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Between Accuracy and Dignity

30.09.2022

Jan-Phillip Graf Jannik Neumann

According to several news organizations, the Ukrainian forces use the facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify deceased Russian combatants in order to inform families about their kin’s death (here,...

Article

Zwischen normativem Anspruch und prozessualer Wirklichkeit – Teil II

21.09.2022

Nicolai Bülte Franziska Gruber Stefan Vasovic

Der erste Teil dieses Beitrags ist hier erschienen. Die prozessuale Hürde: Immunitäten Größter Vorteil – und größter Streitpunkt – einer internationalisierten Strafverfolgung ist die potentielle Umgehung von Immunitäten. Während...

Article

Zwischen normativem Anspruch und prozessualer Wirklichkeit – Teil I

21.09.2022

Nicolai Bülte Franziska Gruber Stefan Vasovic

Seit am 24.02.2022 russische Truppen in die Ukraine einmarschiert sind, scheint das Völkerstrafrecht eine Renaissance zu erleben. Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) nahm bereits wenige Tage nach Kriegsbeginn Ermittlungen auf, eine...

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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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Wofür kämpfen?

25.07.2022

Niklas Reetz

Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine ist zu einem Zermürbungskrieg im Osten des Landes geworden. Seine Fortdauer kostet jeden Tag unzählige Menschenleben. Dennoch zeigt sich gerade in Hinblick auf die...

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Media

#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...