This book offers a unique critical analysis of the legal nature, effects and limits of UN Security Council referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Alexandre Skander Galand provides, for the first time, a full picture of two competing understandings of the nature of the Security Council referrals to the ICC, and their respective normative interplay with legal barriers to the exercis…
The Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing is an international environmental agreement that concerns environmental sustainability, other sustainable development issues and equity. It addresses a complex subject matter that affects a range of research, development and commercial activities and is relevant to different areas of international law such as human rights, intellectual property …
The Open Access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Are unilateral economic sanctions legal under public international law? How do they relate to the existing international legal principles and norms? Can unilateral economic sanctions imposed to redress grave human rights violations be subjected to the same legal contestations …
Volume akses terbuka ini menawarkan analisis interdisipliner yang unik terhadap struktur saat ini dari tata kelola global terkait pajak, perdagangan, dan investasi. Ini mengeksplorasi interaksi antara aktor, mengkritik prosedur pembuatan norma yang ada, dan mengusulkan solusi konkret untuk perbaikan. Ini mempertimbangkan dampak tata kelola global dalam konteks lokal di Asia, Eropa, dan Afrika, …
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, War and Law in the Islamic World examines the origins and roles that two distinct systems of governance – Islamic law and international humanitarian law – have played in…
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three …
This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the long-term, patterns of othering in protracted conflicts, and how this relates with enduring violence. Taking Israel and Palestine as a case study, the book traces different representations of success and failure of the protracted p…
It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks…
Buku Akses Terbuka ini menyediakan analisis mendalam tentang peran media dan jurnalis dalam ekosistem komunikasi yang terfragmentasi dan terpolarisasi yang menghadapi ketidakpastian tantangan besar, seperti dampak proses disintermediasi, tekanan dari kekuatan informasi berlebih dan disinformasi yang simultan, serta ketidakpastian kerja. Buku ini membahas tantangan-tantangan ini dalam konteks kr…