Human Rights

Ukraine Symposium – Release of Chinese POWs in Ukraine

Ukraine Symposium – Release of Chinese POWs in Ukraine

In early April, reports emerged indicating that Ukraine had captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. Additional reports shared by Ukraine's intelligence agencies identified nearly two hundred other Chinese nationals also...

Lieber Studies Series – Military Investigations

Lieber Studies Series – Military Investigations

Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Jelena Pejic and Margaret Kotlik eds. 2025), the eleventh volume of the Lieber Studies Series published with Oxford University Press. Military...

State Practice in Assassination: What is Old is New Again

State Practice in Assassination: What is Old is New Again

In July 2024, CNN reported that American and German intelligence agencies had thwarted a Russian plan to kill Armin Papperger, the chief executive of Rheinmetall, a company known as “the largest and most successful German manufacturer of the vital 155mm artillery...

Food Security Assessments and International Law

Food Security Assessments and International Law

Food security remains an urgent and widespread global issue, with an estimated 281.6 million people in 59 countries or territories facing acute food insecurity in 2023. For nearly half of those people, conflict was the primary driver of their food insecurity. To...