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The U.S. military said yesterday that a U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles to disable the steering gear of a Panama-flagged cargo ship, adding [...]
Jessica Whyte Adania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence
and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first, set during the Palestinian Nakba, a terrible crime is committed against a girl by soldiers sent [...]
[Emma Palmer is Associate Professor at Griffith Law School researching the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes in the Asia-Pacific. Chuka Arinze-Onyia
is a doctoral student at Griffith University Law School researching universal jurisdiction.] This research was supported by Australian Research Council Discovery [...]
The norm against conquest—a central tenet of the international order—is eroding. This study is among the first to examine public support for this norm, using a real-world
case: Israel’s seizure of Syrian territory following the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024. [...]
Thalia Kruger, University of Antwerp & Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg This piece is based on a paper that I presented at the World Congress on Adults
Protection, held in Amsterdam from 8 to 10 July 2026. It is still work in progress. [...]
Thalia Kruger, University of Antwerp & Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg This piece is based on a paper that I presented at the World Congress on Adults
Protection, held in Amsterdam from 8 to 10 July 2026. It is still work in progress. [...]
GINGER – Governance and INnovation for Generating Education and Regularity in EU agricultural funds – is a 24-month project co-funded by the European Union under the Union
Anti-Fraud Programme (EUAF-2025-TRAI-02) and coordinated by UnitelmaSapienza University of Rome. [...]
In dieser Folge führen Patrick und Steve die Reihe zu den UN-Generalsekretären fort. Nach Trygve Lie und Dag Hammarskjöld steht diesmal U Thant im Zentrum. Dieser übernahm
nach dem Tod Hammarskjölds zunächst das Amt als Übergangskandidat, hatte den Posten jedoch nach ersten Bewährungsproben von 1961 bis 1971 inne. [...]
Editorial In this issue This issue opens with two I•CON Keynotes, which were respectively the opening and the closing keynote addresses at the NYU Research Symposium on Legal
Empowerment and Autocracy, held earlier in 2026, and co-hosted by the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law and NYU Accra in Ghana. [...]