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Just stumbled over this gem...

My rational self knows that the world has been and always will be complex, brutal, and ugly to some degree in many places. But to my heart, this really captures "easier times".

(it might also help that I was 16 at the time)

www.ejiltalk.org/anchoring-cr...

While much of the commentary on the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion rightly focuses on its legal conclusions, my latest blog post takes a different approach. I read the opinion as an act of institutional self-presentation: a moment where the Court constructs its own role in the international order.

For the first time, CIR has uncovered the location of a Sudanese RSF military camp in the desert of Sudan’s neighbour, Libya.

It is directly linked to the war in Sudan.

We will show you where, we will show you how.

Watch in full now: youtu.be/umaFPlwJUKM

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

(Siehe zum Urteil auch Heiko Sauer hier, ab Min. 17:47, podcasts.apple.com/cd/podcast/3...) 9/

Im Ramstein-Urteil erkennt das BVerfG die Möglichkeit einer Schutzpflicht auch in Bezug auf das Handeln eines anderen Staates an.

Aber, so FRIEDRICH ARNDT, es verpasse auch die Chance, diese Schutzpflicht einer adäquaten gerichtlichen Kontrolle zu unterziehen.

verfassungsblog.de/ramstein-sch...

Danke für die Einladung, lieber @ronzheimer.bsky.social. Wir sprechen über die Proteste in der Ukraine, ihre Hintergründige und die Folgen für den Krieg.

Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising.
Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him.
My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal
www.ft.com/content/4d61...

And I will repeat this: There was an agreement last Monday that even Hijri agreed to (under pressure from mainstream Druze factions). It was the IDF bombing and then “backing” Hijri in hope of the chaos of ensuring a fragmented south Syria that led to this.

Playing on old grievances and no central

Interesting wrinkle:
Lithuania withdrew its reservation to the compromissory clause in Art. 20 (2) in 2023, i.e., after the situation at the border had already arisen. (treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDe...)
Belarus reacted with an interpretative declaration that... (1/5)

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".

Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky

❗Völkerrechtsblog is looking for new team members❗
Send us your EoI until November 10th, especially if you have recently started your PhD in international law or neighbouring disciplines and are not white and German 😁
voelkerrechtsblog.org/jobs/call-fo...

As the situation escalates in Israel-Palestine, misinformation is rife. It can be difficult to decipher what is really happening and what is not. Our team has gathered examples of misrepresented footage and imagery from the latest conflict, helping you tell facts from fiction

We're aware of a fake BBC video circulating on social media falsely claiming that Bellingcat has verified Ukrainian weapons sales to Hamas. We've reached no such conclusions or made any such claims. We'd like to stress that this is a fabrication and should be treated accordingly.

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