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James Kraska
| Jul 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility, Weapons Law
Did China Just Violate the Biological Warfare Convention? In early June, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two nationals of the People’s Republic of China for conspiracy to smuggle a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the United States,...
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Inna Zavorotko,
Oleksii Plotnikov
| Jul 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
What Is Left After Leaving Ottawa? With 165 member States (at the time of writing), the Ottawa Convention is arguably the most widely recognized international treaty on conventional weapons. It was long regarded as a triumph of civil society, with progress reported on...
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Davit Khachatryan
| Jun 6, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Weapons Law
Diverging Standards in the Legal Review of LAWS In May 2025, Anduril Industries publicly unveiled Fury (YFQ-44A), a next-generation autonomous aircraft currently under evaluation by the U.S. Air Force as part of its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. Fury...
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Ronald Alcala
| May 30, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – Captured Enemy Weapons The Russian military has fielded a new weapon in its conflict with Ukraine. In recent weeks, at least one frontline Russian unit was observed operating an American-made Bradley M2A2 infantry fighting vehicle, and Russia is...
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Justinas Žilinskas
| May 27, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Leaving Ottawa: Lithuania Denounces the Anti-Personnel Mines Convention Significant changes are happening on NATO’s eastern flank. In 2024 Lithuania denounced the Convention on Cluster Munitions. More recently, on May 8, 2025, Lithuania announced its decision to...
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Stuart Casey-Maslen
| Apr 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
The Disarmament Treaties Prohibiting Anti-Personnel Mines and Cluster Munitions: Separating Fact from Fiction In recent months, there has been considerable criticism in scholarship, and in opinion editorials in several newspapers, of the content and impact of the two...
