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If diplomatic efforts cannot avert further conflict between Ukraine and Russia, a dramatic shift in international relations could occur that would have huge consequences for NATO.
What’s the significance of the US beefing up its military presence in Europe? The Conversation provides a roundup of articles addressing the crisis in Ukraine.
Will the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, known as ASEAN, start taking tougher stances against authoritarian and military regimes? Its recent treatment of Myanmar’s military ruler is promising.
China and the US have differing interpretations of the law of the sea – and this is fuelling deep distrust and suspicion.
The verdict opens the way for further genocide prosecutions.
A progressive government can and should take a principled approach to foreign policy. That means Canada’s Liberals must stop pitting good jobs at home against human rights abroad.
Interviews with former torturers in Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq reveal what it takes to be a torturer – which could help explain how to reduce the number of people who get tortured around the world.
The push for a new environmental crime has attracted high-profile backers including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg. But we must get the details right.
Vague promises to rescue certain groups of people are causing confusion.
Kashmir has been in conflict since 1947, despite repeated UN and US interventions. An expert in security studies explains why international law has failed to keep the peace.
With little international law governing state-sponsored cybercrime, the risk of retaliation and even war is growing.
The Royal Navy is central to the government’s vision of ‘Global Britain’.
Ending the Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples is a legal obligation, requiring honest, active decolonization. The lawyer who wrote the MMIWG’s inquiry’s legal analysis of genocide explains.
Climate migrants don’t fit neatly into the legal definitions of refugee or migrant, and that can leave them in limbo. The Biden administration is debating how to identify and help them.
The Danish government has been clear that it prioritises politics over the law when it comes to its citizens who left to join the caliphate.
Can Belarus claim to have been within its rights to divert a Ryanair flight and detain passengers?
Fears grow for the young dissident journalist after he was taken off a Ryanair flight.
Both sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict may be violating the international laws that govern armed conflict. A legal scholar explains these rules – and whether anyone enforces them.
Robertson’s book is a call to action for ‘Magnitsky laws’ to be introduced in Australia, which impose sanctions and travel bans on individuals for human rights abuses.
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