Leaving Ottawa: Lithuania Denounces the Anti-Personnel Mines Convention

Leaving Ottawa: Lithuania Denounces the Anti-Personnel Mines Convention

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...
Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer

Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer

Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has ignited discussions within and between NATO States concerning the international conventions that ban the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster...
Assessing the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Convention Withdrawals

Assessing the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Convention Withdrawals

Assessing the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Convention Withdrawals As security along their borders has deteriorated, Eastern European, Baltic, and Nordic States have scrambled to update and adapt their national defense strategies. Nearly all these States have publicly...
When Security Prevails: Lithuania Votes to Withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions

When Security Prevails: Lithuania Votes to Withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions

When Security Prevails: Lithuania Votes to Withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions Lithuania has recently voted to withdraw from the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). On July 18, 2024 the State’s Parliament adopted a “denunciation law,” which means...
Lessons Learned from the Latest Rendition Cases at the European Court of Human Rights

Lessons Learned from the Latest Rendition Cases at the European Court of Human Rights

Lessons Learned from the Latest Rendition Cases at the European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recently finalized its judgment against Lithuania in a case involving Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) detainees. The ECtHR ordered Lithuania to pay...