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René Värk
| Jun 23, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility
Estonia’s New Push to Seize Immobilised Russian State Assets Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has caused extensive material damage. The World Bank Group, the government of Ukraine, the European Union, and the United Nations released a latest “Rapid Damage and Needs...
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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...
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Robert Kolb,
Benjamin Meret
| Mar 19, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality
Clarifying Neutrality: The Rise of Different Statuses? With the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, one can witness the rebirth of a classical topic of international law: the law of neutrality. Some argue that neutrality is “obsolete.” An alternative...
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Brian D. Green
| Jan 31, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Space Law, State Responsibility
Countering Space-Based Weapons of Mass Destruction Russia’s alleged effort to develop a space-based nuclear weapon threatens to violate the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, undermine international peace and stability, and hold at risk the peaceful use of space for all...
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Jennifer Maddocks
| Nov 15, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility
Article 9 and the Attribution of Armed Groups’ Attacks to the Territorial State The ongoing conflicts between Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah continue to raise complex questions of international law. Some of these involve issues of State responsibility, requiring an...