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Author: Davit Khachatryan

06 Jul

[Davit Khachatryan is a lecturer at American University of Armenia and Russian-Armenian University specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security. Gor Samvel is an MSCA post-doctoral researcher at the UiT- the Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law and the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, specializing in international environmental law.] Introduction While...

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30 Jun

[Narek Abgaryan is a legal professional specializing in public international law with expertise in international humanitarian law and the law of international treaties, currently focused on promoting international law and legal education in Armenia. Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security.] Much has been written about the legality...

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14 Apr

[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security] The prohibition on the use of force is international law’s foundational rule. But not every violation of that rule is the same. When force is used not merely to coerce a state but to dismantle and replace its government, something...

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14 Jan

[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security] A short video clip circulating online appears to show a US strike on a small vessel at sea, followed by imagery that has been read as suggesting that there were survivors in the water. The clip has...

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30 Oct

[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and reader] “They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on. It’s all rubbish! … War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that and not play at war.” Prince Andrei’s blunt rejection...

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29 Sep

[Davit Khachatyan is an international lawyer and lecturer, teaching international law, arbitration, and investment law at the Russian-Armenian University and the American University of Armenia] Armenia’s national symbols have long included Mount Ararat, a symbol of cultural and historical significance to Armenians, despite lying just across the border in Turkey. Ararat appears at the center of Armenia’s coat of arms and...

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