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BRICS Summitry: What Takeaways for the United States?

Despite the bloc's limitations, its expansion and the summit demonstrated the Global South's resolve to measurably change the status quo.
Ukrainian artillerymen of Aidar battalion fire a 122mm D30 howitzer artillery field gun

Trials of Ukrainian Prisoners of War in Russia: Decay of the Combatant’s Immunity

Captured members of UAF units - including the Azof and Aidar battalions - qualify as POWs and should be protected from prosecution for lawful acts of war by the combatant’s privilege.…
Ukrainian flags in memory of soldiers who died during the war against Russia are seen on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti

Accountability for Russian Imperialism in the “Global East”

Despite a tendency to analyze global divisions over aggression trials through a “West” versus “Global South” binary, the longer-term stakes of accountability for Ukraine…
Ukrainian artillerymen of Aidar battalion fire a 122mm D30 howitzer artillery field gun

Суди над українськими військовополоненими в Росії: руйнація імунітету комбатанта

Отже, російські фіктивні судові процеси повністю нівелюють ці основоположні принципи МГП і спрямовані…
Biden and Zelenskyy walk past a Ukrainian flag. Biden is wearing a dark suit and Zelenskyy is wearing a dark green polo shirt.

Biden’s Cooperation with the ICC Is a Step Toward Embracing Reality

Biden's decision may end a dangerous practice of wishful thinking about U.S. exposure to the ICC’s jurisdiction, one that has helped enable U.S. policies ranging from attacks…
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Ukraine Shows that Military Aid Transparency Is Possible

While the administration deserves credit for transparency on aid to Ukraine, the approach casts a stark light on the opacity of broader security cooperation programming and begs…
(From L to R) Former Serbian Minister of Defence Zoran Djordjevic, then-Serbian Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin, Serbian Ambassador in Bosnia and Herzegovina Stanimir Vukicevic and President of the Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) Milorad Dodik attend an event to promote Slavic - Serbian ties on July 7, 2017 in Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The gathering aimed to highlight Bosnian Serb victims of the Bosnian 1992-1995 war. Bratunac is located near Srebrenica, where the genocide against Muslim Bosnian civilians by Bosnian Serbs forces took place in 1995. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

US Sanctions Against Serbia’s Intel Boss Should Signal a More Holistic Policy Redo

The commendable action will only have an impact as part of a broader change in the Biden administration’s posture on the Western Balkans.
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How Russia is Using Online Video Games to Promote the War in Ukraine

Russia's exploitation of online gaming demonstrates that virtual battlefields have a bearing on real ones.
A European Union observer, seen from behind and wearing a blue helmet and blue vest with the EU's circle of stars on it, looks in the direction of the Lachin corridor, the Armenian-populated breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region's only land link with Armenia, on July 30, 2023. Karabakh has been at the centre of a decades-long dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have fought two wars over the mountainous territory. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Starvation as a Means of Genocide: Azerbaijan’s Blockade of the Lachin Corridor Between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh

The US, Russia, and other world powers have avenues both to halt the current situation and to pursue justice and accountability.

What You Need to Know: International Humanitarian Law and Russia’s Termination of the Black Sea Grain Initiative

Following Russia's withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, what does IHL have to say on food security, Russia's attacks on Ukrainian food export infrastructure, and the…
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The Just Security Podcast: Potential Rwandan Aggression Against the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Accountability for the crime of aggression matters because acts of aggression can lead to other grave crimes, including war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A Significant New Step in the Creation of An International Compensation Mechanism for Ukraine

In establishing a Register of Damages, the Council of Europe has taken a momentous step in the effort to create an international claims commission for Ukraine.
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