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Davit Khachatryan
| Sep 8, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Baltic Defense Line: Military Necessity and Civilian Protection on NATO’s Eastern Flank Europe’s easternmost flank is undergoing one of the most strategically calibrated defensive preparations since the Cold War. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are coordinating the...
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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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Michael N. Schmitt
| Mar 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
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...
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Sean Watts
| Mar 27, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Weapons Law
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...
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Justinas Žilinskas
| Aug 13, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law
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...
