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When Restrain Becomes Complicity
The US-Israeli attacks against Iran, launched on 28 February 2026, have plunged the Middle East into a dangerous and expanding conflict – triggering a broader factual and normative wildfire. What is significant about this conflict is not simply its rapid escalation, but the open defiance of fundamental rules of internati
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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/when-restrain-becomes-complicity/
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The Erosion of Diplomacy, One Tweet at a Time
It is a foundational premise of international legal theory that law between states operates through consent, reciprocity, and the sustained practice of interaction that generates customary norms. Unlike domestic legal systems, international law is devoid of a centralised enforcement mechanism; its b
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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-erosion-of-diplomacy-one-tweet-at-a-time/
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The Law’s Apocalypse or the Law of Apocalypse?
In the early post-Cold-War years, writing about the “funeral march” of the twentieth-century history, Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller penned, “Man-inflicted apocalypse is the parody of apocalypse. […] Men are envious of apocalypse; their ambition is to do it better. Why should angels kill off one-third of
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-laws-apocalypse-or-the-law-of-apocalypse/
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The Law’s Apocalypse or the Law of Apocalypse?
In the early post-Cold-War years, writing about the “funeral march” of the twentieth-century history, Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller penned, “Man-inflicted apocalypse is the parody of apocalypse. […] Men are envious of apocalypse; their ambition is to do it better. Why should angels kill off one-third of
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-laws-apocalypse-or-the-law-of-apocalypse/
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Rebuilding the Ship of Theseus
The remarks of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference illustrate contemporary anxieties about the “rules-based order” (RBO). Rubio declared that “[…] we can no longer place the so-called global order above the vital interests of our people and our nations”. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took it further,
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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/rebuilding-the-ship-of-theseus/
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The Politics of Reception
400 years ago, Hugo Grotius published his most important work, De iure belli ac pacis (IBP). The work made Grotius famous and earned him the title of father of modern international law. To this day, the work is repeatedly cited as a fundamental text of international law. But what do we actually kno
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