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Lily Hamourtziadou,
Welmoet Wels
| Oct 22, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Military Use of Biometrics Series
Military Use of Biometrics Series – Necrometrics and Contextualising Human Remains in Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the law applicable to the military use of biometrics. It is drawn from the author’s article-length work,...
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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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Louisa Handel-Mazzetti
| May 2, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Space Law, Use of Force
Deterrence Doesn’t Fly in Space: Nuclear Weapons in Outer Space as a Threat of Force In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt on Friday April 12th, NATO Secretary-General Rutte expressed concern regarding the potential deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in...
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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...
