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Himanil Raina
| Aug 7, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Targeting
Merchant Shipping as Military Objectives and Naval Economic Warfare On July 17, 2023, within 48 hours of the suspension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Russia and Ukraine made pivotal declarations potentially expanding the scope of their hostilities to a hitherto...
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Marten Zwanenburg,
Arjen Vermeer
| Jul 19, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Transfers of POWs to Third States Introduction On 9 June 2023, media reported that Hungary received eleven Ukrainian Prisoners of War (POWs) from Russia. More than a week later, Reuters reported that three of these persons had been repatriated to...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Mar 22, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality
“Strict” versus “Qualified” Neutrality The support neutral States are providing Russia and Ukraine has ignited a debate over neutrality. It is one of existential magnitude for Ukraine. Indeed, the survival of Kyiv in early 2022 can be attributed in significant part to...
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Tara Brown
| Jul 8, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Neutrality, Space Law, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – The Risk of Commercial Actors in Outer Space Drawing States into Armed Conflict Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the satellite communications firm Viasat confirmed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that is suspected to...
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Raul (Pete) Pedrozo
| May 31, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Is the Law of Neutrality Dead? The 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict has rekindled the debate about the validity of qualified neutrality during an international armed conflict. The concept is sometimes also referred to as benevolent neutrality....
