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Martha M. Bradley,
Marko Svicevic
| Apr 8, 2024
Collective Self-Defense and the Internationalization of Armed Conflicts in Eastern DRC Nearly a decade after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a ceasefire agreement with the March 23 (M23) rebel movement, violence has once again erupted in the...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Dec 14, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Classification of the Conflict(s) The threshold questions in any international humanitarian law (IHL) analysis are whether an armed conflict is underway as a matter of law and, if so, what type. They are determinative questions because the...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| May 9, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Are We at War? Last week, allegations that the United States and a number of other NATO nations are providing intelligence to Ukraine that enables attacks against Russian forces continued to surface. Broadly speaking, the reports of...
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David Wallace
| Feb 7, 2022
Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq A recent New York Times article discussed, in part, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, raising important, yet underexplored, questions about occupations under the law of armed conflict (LOAC). The...
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Steve Szymanski,
Chris Koschnitzky
| Jan 24, 2022
Afghanistan 2021: Reflections from the Stockton Center for International Law’s Workshop Despite over twenty years of legal analysis, many issues regarding the Afghanistan conflict remain unsettled. At a recent Stockton Center for International Law law of armed...