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Rob McLaughlin
| Sep 15, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Maritime
Maritime Blockade and its Starvation Effect: A Key Material Element in the Crime of Genocide? In modern terms, a maritime blockade can be defined as “a belligerent operation intended to prevent vessel traffic from all States from entering or leaving specified coastal...
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Aurel Sari
| Jul 22, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific Region Volume
Lieber Studies Indo-Pacific Volume – LOAC and Information Warfare in the Indo-Pacific Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Armed Conflict and International Law in the Indo-Pacific Region (Douglas Guilfoyle & Jennifer Maddocks eds. 2026),...
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Robert Kolb,
Pavle Kilibarda
| May 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification
Statehood in Conflict Classification: Revisiting Recognition in Contemporary IHL After more than a decade since the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo and the independence and admission of South Sudan into the United Nations, there has been another rise...
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Mark Lattimer
| May 18, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Dual-Use Objects and Dual-Purpose Attacks Editors’ note: This post highlights work in the author’s recent chapter, “Objective and Subjective Tests for Determining Violations of the Law of Targeting: The Unreasonable Commander and the Guilty Mind,” appearing in Volume...
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Oded Hen
| Mar 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
What Aggregate Civilian-Combatant Ratios Tell Us, And What They Don’t: A Case Study from the Gaza Conflict Public debate about contemporary armed conflict increasingly relies on aggregate civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios as indicators of legality and moral...
