International Law

A Framework Convention on Global Health: A Step to Better Health for All

Sacha Blumen • Jun 29 2016 • Essays

There should be an effective global right to health and it would be worthwhile for states to negotiate and ratify a Framework Convention on Global Health.

Why Have Resolutions of the UN General Assembly If They Are Not Legally Binding?

Celine Van den Rul • Jun 16 2016 • Essays

Even though UNGA resolutions enjoy a limited legal status, they have a powerful symbolic and political impact, and they help influence contemporary international law.

A Whig History of European Integration?

Jiayuan Wang • May 29 2016 • Essays

The inescapability of Whig history lies not in the irreversibility of the European project but in the political necessity of its narrative construction.

Mandate Disclosure in EU Trade Negotiations: The Case of TiSA

Michal Ovádek • May 24 2016 • Essays

The publication of TiSA’s negotiating mandate represents an effort to increase transparency, used by negotiators as a stepping stone towards expanding the EU’s win-set.

The Legality of Russian Airstrikes in Syria and ‘Intervention by Invitation’

Samuel Mercier • Apr 29 2016 • Essays

Examining the legality of Russia’s claim of ‘intervention by invitation’ & the validity of such a principle when a country fails to respect norms of international law.

Responsibility to Protect and its Neo-Imperialist Implications

Sasha Bhatnagar • Apr 14 2016 • Essays

Any form of humanitarian intervention will seek to impose a one-sided narrative of stability and security, which are, by default, culturally and regionally not uniform.

To What Extent Does International Law Reflect the Sovereign Will of States?

Sneha Dawda • Apr 1 2016 • Essays

Although international law reflects the sovereign will of Western states to a large extent, it significantly fails to reflect the will of post-colonial nations.

Transitional Justice in Cambodia–Too Little Too Late?

Emily Gleeson • Mar 22 2016 • Essays

Understanding the events and interests that led up to the creation of the ECCC gives insight into the current government’s attempts to achieve legitimacy.

Forgetting Politics: The Impossibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Lisa Whitten • Mar 3 2016 • Essays

‘Humanitarian military intervention’ is critiqued as a de-politicizing discourse, with four proposals for re-politicization suggested.

The Falklands War: Differing Causes of Conflict

Alexander Liffiton • Feb 6 2016 • Essays

Explaining the occurrence of the Falklands War through diversionary theory, competing sovereignty claims and Fearon’s exploration of the contraction of bargaining ranges.

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