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10 Nov Is There Really a War on Terrorism Outside of Afghanistan? You Betcha!
Critics of the U.S. war on terrorism often deride it as a bad metaphor or an excuse to conduct controversial detentions, interrogations and military trials. But what the Pentagon refers to as the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) has many of the characteristics of a typical armed conflict, even outside of the main battlefield in Afghanistan. As the NYT reports: The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and...27 Jan Gustavo Petro’s Response to Trump
...black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the...
31 Mar Water Under Fire: The (il)legality of Reprisals Against Desalination Plants
[Tadesse Kebebew is a Project Manager at the Geneva Water Hub, a joint centre of the University of Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute. He leads a project that examines the impacts of damage or attacks on water systems on civilians and the environment. He holds a PhD in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland).] Water Desalination Facilities Have Entered the Battlefield Water infrastructure has emerged as a critical, and increasingly vulnerable, feature of contemporary armed conflict, and has in many contexts been deliberately targeted or incidentally damaged....19 Jan Weekend Roundup: January 12-18, 2013
...at a recent symposium on the Boundaries of the Battlefield, co-ordinated by my fellow Assistant Editor, Jessica Dorsey, and Başak Çalı posted the second part of her series on international judicial review, comparing two cases of the European Court of Human Rights. In addition to our regular Events and announcements post, Julian announced that Tom Graham, member of the WTO’s Appellate Body, will give the Shapiro lecture at Hofstra on February 6. Roger congratulated David Caron on his appointment as the new dean at the Dickson Poon School of Law...29 May New Laws for a New Cybercommand?
...should use cyberweapons, and the public announcement on Friday is expected to focus solely on defensive steps and the government’s acknowledgment that it needs to be better organized to face the threat from foes attacking military, government and commercial online systems. . . . “We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain,“ said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. “We need to be able to operate within that domain just like on any battlefield, which includes protecting our freedom of movement and...
14 Jul The Business of Security: New Frontiers and Old Challenges in Private Military and Security Companies Regulation – Introduction to the Symposium
...the Global South’s Burden by Madhumita Jayashankar Who is Responsible? When Private Military Companies Aren’t Completely Private by Lindsay Freeman and Amanda Ghahremani Ukraine’s New Bill on PMSCs – A Possible Pandora’s Box for Operations Abroad? by Darío Bürky Arellano From Contract to Combat – Individual Criminal Liability of PMSC Personnel and Its Integration into Emerging Treaty Frameworks by Adrián Agenjo Profit, Power, and the Privatised Battlefield by Ara Marcén Naval Playing Regulatory Catch-up – PM(S)Cs and the New Draft Instrument by Sarah Katharina Stein The views expressed in this...
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Gabriella Citroni, Chiara Gabriele, Danaé van der Straten Ponthoz and Julie Bardèche
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