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22 Sep

...the terrorism threat that has emerged from the chaos of Syria’s civil war, and that the more immediate threats still come from traditional terror groups like Khorasan and the Nusra Front, which is Al Qaeda’s designated affiliate in Syria. Mr. Fadhli, 33, has been tracked by American intelligence agencies for at least a decade. According to the State Department, before Mr. Fadhli arrived in Syria, he had been living in Iran as part of a small group of Qaeda operatives who had fled to the country from Afghanistan after the...
22.09.14 | |

15 Sep

for anticipatory self-defence? Might not a better analogy be with the law of neutrality? If the law of neutrality is a good analogy, then at least to the extent that the US Field Manual 27-10 accurately reflects the law, if Syria fails for any reason to prevent ISIS using its territory to support ISIS operations in Iraq, Iraq (and its allies) are justified in conducting attacks in Syria. Notably, paragraph 520 of FM 27-10 does not mention any preconditions, such as Iraq calling on Syria first or requesting Syrian consent....
15.09.14 | |

07 Jul

[Marina Aksenova is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at IE University] The advance of artificial intelligence (AI) represents a seismic shift in how we regulate and structure societies. The question of what keeps us human in the age of algorithmic and synthetic reasoning is then far from trivial. Spontaneous creativity may be one of the answers. This symposium discusses my new book Art, Aesthetics and International Justice (Routledge, 2025). Six wonderful contributions appearing over the course of the next few days engage with the major themes...
07.07.25 | |

04 Feb

...see this debate linked to a larger set of literatures. We hope that this symposium will encourage others to investigate the forces that have shaped regional integration projects around the world and to use evidence from ECOWAS to inform regional integration theory in general. Our article attempts to stay on firm empirical ground and to generate as complete and accurate an account of the ECOWAS Court’s transformation as one can have at this moment in time. But here is the rub—what does it mean to say “at this moment of...
04.02.14 | |

09 Sep

Al kerrami Is this (Justice Symposium) gonna to say the truth about France, the KSA, Egypt, Russia, the UAE ...etc? Those countries who are making Libya as you said in your article. If you’re not going to tell the truth to the world and will end you (Justice Symposium) without any real solutions, please don’t do it; because talking is not enough for Libyans. Walid You forgot to mention Qatar and Turkey!...
09.09.19 | |

13 Jun

Patrick S. O'Donnell Alas, this meaningless red line does have meaning after all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/obama-syrian-rebels_n_3438625.html (influence of folks like Samantha Power?) For a few of the reasons we might be troubled by this, see Patrick Cockburn's piece on the Syrian war in the London Review of Books (6 June 2013). Jordan with respect to NATO, Turkey, Jordan, or the U.S. targeting chemical and biological weapons in Syria as well as support for the opposition at their request, please see Use of Military Force in Syria by Turkey, NATO, and the United...
13.06.13 | |

07 Mar

...blog post tried to defend the Obama administration’s advocacy for an attack on Syria in August and September as well as the 78-day bombardment of Serbia in 1999. He said both could be compared to the desegregationist position in Brown v. Board of Education. The unlawful use of force in Kosovo and Syria was an attempt by the U.S. to change the law for the better. Koh’s position is flawed in many respects as respondents David Kaye and Carsten Stahn point out. The most basic logical flaw is that Koh...
07.03.14 | |

08 May

...internet, twitter, insta, snapping.  Fads, causes, self-promotion: the on-line commentariat contributes to the deluge of marketing(s), the simplification of content, the discourse of sloganeering. And, to be sure, the ICC itself tweets and retweets. A lot. Isabella Banks has studied these (re)tweets. What does she find? That despite all the social mediaing, well, the ICC ‘made little to no effort to solicit feedback or generate dialogue on Twitter’. You called it well, Christine, it’s the top-down ‘training’ of others. I remember reading Marshall McLuhan and his medium is the message....
08.05.23 | |

03 Dec

...the Assad regime, but also because States beyond Russia and China have concerns about more ambitious measures in terms of both the implications for State sovereignty, and the possibility that such assistance could strengthen the hand of different non-State armed actors. As Trahan acknowledges, accountability and humanitarian measures are unlikely to halt mass atrocities by themselves. In a situation such as Syria, it is difficult to see how that could be achieved absent a use of force. Military intervention in Syria has of course been only fleetingly considered: I’d argue...
03.12.20 | |

04 Oct

Aryeh Neier, recently retired president of the Open Society Institute (and former head of Human Rights Watch and the ACLU), has an opinion piece in Project Ricochet this week calling for a no-fly zone over Syria. He calls for it to be imposed by a regional force and NATO. The US would not lead the effort, though presumably it would participate via NATO – while providing backup, both material and political, another exercise in deliberately “leading from behind.” He is cautious about the US intervening militarily directly, and frames the...
04.10.12 | |

10 Mar

[Claude Bruderlein is the director of the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research] The deteriorating security situation in Syria has had dramatic consequences on the civilian population. While the international community debates different ways to respond to the violence against civilians and the rising humanitarian needs, a growing tension has emerged around the means and methods to provide humanitarian protection. On the one hand, protagonists of traditional humanitarian access, such as the ICRC, hope to establish consensual arrangements to provide relief to populations in need on the basis...
10.03.12 | |