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Arguments against SERs' justiciability—on grounds of their ‘costly’ nature, vagueness, intangibility, and the incapacity of courts—prove counterproductive and misguided.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/06/analysing-the-justiciability-of-social-and-economic-rights/

The gendered analysis of weaponization of healthcare reveals how when it is combined with sexual violence women are exposed to a compounded form of violence.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/09/17/gender-and-weaponization-of-healthcare-in-conflict-a-feminist-discourse-analysis/

Particularly in the case of de facto states, non-formal recognition practices can play a major role in constructing sovereignty and statehood for the territory in question.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/08/27/more-than-a-seat-in-the-general-assembly-the-recognition-of-de-facto-states/

The 1951 Refugee Convention's limitations are increasingly evident as climate change drives displacement, necessitating broader legal frameworks for protection.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/08/13/are-climate-refugees-compatible-with-the-1951-refugee-convention/

Narrow definitions of genocide facilitate its continuation, as evidenced by Israel's ongoing physical, economic, and cultural destruction of the Palestinian society.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/07/01/destruction-colonialism-and-capital-genocidal-perspectives-on-palestine/

The US should lead by example and pinpoint the institutional issues that contributed to, and culminated in, over a million dead citizens and potentially prevent a similar disaster from occurring...

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/10/29/applying-transitional-justice-frameworks-to-the-united-states/

Comparative analysis highlighted how the support of Great Powers with strong alliance-building capacities is a key element to exert statehood in the international arena.

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/08/15/statehood-in-modern-international-community-kosovo-south-ossetia-and-abkhazia/

Colonial history is still reflected in the UK citizen deprivation policy, segregating white and Muslim British citizens—it has a global impact too.

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/04/10/citizenship-deprivation-policy-in-the-uk-and-abroad-a-postcolonial-analysis/

The high-emitting state of Australia has obligations considering its international agreements: especially vis-à-vis its vulnerable Pacific Island state neighbours.

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/03/20/australia-international-agreements-as-obligation-in-the-case-of-climate-change/

Analysing Big Tech as a transnational capitalist class, Gramscian thought provides an outlook on possible avenues of governance of the digital sphere.

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/02/26/gramscian-notions-helpful-for-research-into-digital-and-tech-corporations/

A comparative investigation of two scholarly works on the development of international law in its context of the international system.

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/02/20/to-reform-the-world-or-to-close-the-system-international-law-and-world-making/

The original approach taken by the Quality of Governance Index in measuring public corruption has allowed for strong advances in the framing and understanding of such.

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/01/10/the-european-quality-of-government-index-a-critical-analysis/

Grassroots justice schemes are better equipped to deliver justice in the aftermath of genocide than top-down state-led adjudication mechanisms.

https://www.e-ir.info/2022/01/10/performances-of-justice-interrogating-post-genocide-adjudication/

Cybercrimes have increased worldwide. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to fight this through techniques informed by social, political, and computer sciences.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/11/03/computational-propaganda-challenges-and-responses/

In states of exception, security objectives often negate human rights, but a human-rights compliant security approach can lead to better outcomes for public safety.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/10/15/human-rights-and-security-in-public-emergencies/

Two media outlets, the Guardian and the People’s Daily, are markedly different in their portrayal of violence during the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/07/28/narratives-of-violence-the-hong-kong-protests-through-opposing-media-outlets/

Fragmentation during the Intifada demonstrates that while fragmentation is not inherently a positive attribute in civil war, it can be applied in future conflicts.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/07/06/fragmentation-back-channels-and-hurting-stalemates-in-the-oslo-accords/

After the 2014 ISIS Sinjar massacre, there is an unlikely, but possible, strategy of reconciliation and reconstruction for the marginalized Yazidi people of Iraq.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/05/01/serenity-for-sinjar-resiliency-and-reconciliation/

Settler-colonialism contains an essential and continuous 'logic of elimination.' Seen in Australia's treatment of indigenous population, this oppression persists today.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/04/25/settler-colonial-continuity-and-the-ongoing-suffering-of-indigenous-australians/

The European Parliament's role and powers have evolved throughout the years. However, it has not yet obtained the role and powers of a genuine co-legislator.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/04/23/the-european-parliament-a-genuine-co-legislator/

The Refugee Deal translates through a Western-dominate racialized and gendered logic of protection that does not effectively protect the refugees it targets and impacts.

https://www.e-ir.info/2021/04/12/the-eu-turkey-refugee-deal-protection-for-whom/

Disposability can be understood as structures that manage life and the distribution of death in the interests of actors in global economic and political networks.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/11/28/governing-global-security-through-the-logic-of-disposability-the-meaning-of-us-drone-warfare-in-the-war-on-terror/

The ability of the International Maritime Organisation to regulate shipping must be evaluated in the context of each specific issue area, and the interests that prevail here.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/11/24/greening-the-seas-the-role-of-business-conflict-in-tightening-the-imo-sulphur-cap/

Recent militancy in West Africa has prompted France to abandon its indirect approach to African security in favor of more forceful military interventions.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/10/29/french-intervention-in-west-africa-interests-and-strategies-2013-2020/

Great Powers have actively exploited the stagnation of multilateral governance mechanisms to unilaterally shape the norms and rules of space activities.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/10/26/the-state-of-and-prospects-for-space-governance-a-critical-deliberation/

The Nottebohm case has seen renewed relevance in the debate over “checkbook citizenship”—which offers a fast track to a passport in exchange for investment in that state.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/10/05/checkbook-citizenship-renewed-relevance-for-the-nottebohm-ruling/

The debate between neorealism and neoliberalism is gathering importance in the realm of outer space as its future can be either competitive or cooperative in nature.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/09/25/neo-neo-debate-in-understanding-the-geopolitics-of-outer-space/

Securitizing asylum-seeking disregards international refugee and human rights law while also leading to the inhumane treatment of those fleeing from persecution.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/09/12/illegal-criminals-invading-securitising-asylum-seekers-in-australia-and-the-us/

The most appropriate way to evaluate the success or failure of the ICC is to apply comparative case study methods to critique based in pragmatism.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/08/27/how-should-the-international-criminal-court-be-assessed/

The pragmatism and profundity of restorative justice do not have to be mutually exclusive. They can be mutually reliant as modes of practice for restorative justice.

https://www.e-ir.info/2020/08/25/restorative-justice-as-a-response-to-atrocity-profound-or-merely-pragmatic/