Eight decades of global peace and cooperation are coming to an end, writes Thant Myint-U. “The twin convictions of no war and no empire, the load-bearing walls of the long peace, are fast buckling.”
The list of countries threatened with U.S. military intervention is growing
· Venezuela 🇻🇪
· Iran 🇮🇷
· Cuba 🇨🇺
· Greenland 🇬🇱
· Canada 🇨🇦
…just this year!
Do they all want "Liberation"? No, I argue in
@foreignaffairs.com
#ECJ: The freezing of assets held by a trust is compatible with #EUlaw #RestrictiveMeasures #Russia #Ukraine 🇪🇺 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
Bloomberg News
Martins Paparinskis
Unseren Beitrag gibt es jetzt auch Online (allerdings hinter Paywall)
www.faz.net/einspruch/ex...
Notification to Italian Government of two cases brought by alleged victims of former Libyan chief of police.
go.coe.int/5SDMS
Notification au gouvernement italien de deux affaires Introduites par des victimes présumées de l’ancien chef de la police libyenne.
go.coe.int/t7gyn
War, empire, and the forgotten power of the United Nations.
Das amerikanische Eingreifen in Venezuela hat langfristige Folgen für die völkerrechtliche Ordnung. Die Europäer sollten sich auf ihre Stärken besinnen.
The GA Res endorsing the ICJ climate change advisory opinion has passed with 8 vote against, among those the US. The whole thread is fabulous.
For the first time, Germany has lost a campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council👇
The world cares about int’al law, & this is a lesson for states: whether it’s Venezuela, Gaza, Iran, or Lebanon, promoting the consistent application of int’al law is good politics.
European Court of Human Rights
Foreign Affairs
“In Washington, the use of sanctions has become a reflex,” writes Matthew H. Murray. But do they constitute a strategy? Murray argues sanctions policy toward Russia must be integrated into a more coherent economic statecraft:
www.justsecurity.org/138429/sanct...
Janina Dill
U.S. sanctions toward Russia have proliferated, but effective policy requires integrating them into broader economic statecraft.
Gemeinsam mit Helmut Aust und Claus Kreß haben wir unsere Überlegungen zu den Folgen der US Außenpolitik für den Umgang mit dem Völkerrecht in der heutigen FAZ veröffentlicht.
Heike Krieger
Mark Kersten
Holger Hestermeyer
Just Security
36/ 🥁🥁🥁 Now comes the moment of truth: the 🇺🇳 UNGA vote to adopt the resolution as tabled by Vanuatu!
And what a success:
✅ 141 in favour,
❌ 8 against,
🙊 28 abstention...
🎉 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝! 🎉
Germany does not get a non-permanent seat in the UN security council, losing against Austria and Portugal.
That’s actually pretty embarrassing for German diplomacy (even if you think the SC is useless.)
🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck
Ulrike Franke
Ups
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Portugal und Österreich haben sich durchgesetzt: Deutschland ist mit seiner Bewerbung für einen nicht-ständigen Sitz im Uno-Sicherheitsrat gescheitert.
