by Adam Aliano, Russell Spivak | Apr 25, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – The Montreux Convention and Turkey’s Impact on Black Sea Operations Weeks into Russia’s military campaign into Ukraine, the role homeported Black Sea maritime forces are playing is well documented. Reuters recently published a story in which...
by Raul (Pete) Pedrozo | Apr 12, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Maritime Exclusion Zones in Armed Conflicts Since the early 1900s, belligerents have established maritime zones during armed conflict to control access to broad ocean areas and to shape battlespace management. Regardless of their...
by Karen Hulme | Apr 12, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Unprecedented Environmental Risks Environmental damage in armed conflict is generally caused in four ways: (1) the conduct of hostilities, i.e., the use of means and methods of warfare (weapons and tactics); (2) natural resource extraction...
by Martin Fink | Mar 24, 2022
The War at Sea: Is There a Naval Blockade in the Sea of Azov? Although land operations have garnered most attention, the war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation also rages at and from the sea. During these last weeks, several merchant vessels were attacked and...
by Jeffrey Kahn | Mar 9, 2022
Consistency and Change in Russian Approaches to International Law Recent Russian conduct on the world stage—and less metaphorically, on the territory of Ukraine—has been appalling. Violations of international law (such as acts of aggression and unlawful support for...
by Raul (Pete) Pedrozo | Mar 3, 2022
Closing the Turkish Straits in Times of War On February 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic as independent States and purportedly deployed Russian “peacekeeping” troops to...
