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The legal dimensions of the Black Sea Grain Initiative offer insights into the actual and potential roles of international law at times of crisis.
The problems—legal and political—with using the doctrine of countermeasures to confiscate Russian central bank assets have been understated by everyone.
A review of Mariana Budjeryn, “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).
The parties’ interests and flexibility of their commitments made the Grain Deal a reality but are also the main cause of its permanent fragility.
Definitional challenges in international law make regulating Wagner Group activity difficult, and transnational governance is not a ready substitute. What can be done instead?
Much like Rome, a legal institution with integrity is not built in a day.
At the outset of the invasion, analysts doubted Ukraine’s likelihood of winning a war against Russia. But as the conflict enters its second year, Ukraine’s resistance prompts a challenge to revisionist and traditionalist conceptions of “just war”—specifically, for the condition of “success.”
The warrants for the arrest of Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova were for alleged war crimes relating to the deportation of children during the War in Ukraine.
If the U.S. government hopes to retain domestic support for its efforts in Ukraine and ensure that weapons are not diverted to other conflict contexts, it must develop robust and innovative monitoring mechanisms.
If the United States confiscates Russian state assets and transfers them to Ukraine, it should reserve a portion to compensate the people who have obtained valid legal judgments against Russia for misconduct that led to the present crisis.