Conflict as System Realignment: How Overloaded Systems Reset Themselves
Recasting conflict as a form of systemic realignment shifts the focus away from individual leaders, favouring of a deeper understanding of structural limits.
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Interview – Michael Byers
Michael Byers explains how space, climate change, and conflict intersect and why global cooperation and context matter more than ever in international law.
Opinion – International Law’s Adaptive Resilience: Navigating Contemporary Global Conflicts
International law’s future depends on its capacity to evolve while maintaining fundamental protective principles, a process evidenced by contemporary responses to conflicts.
Putin says Russia will ‘intensify’ attacks on Ukraine
KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his forces would intensify strikes on military targets in Ukraine, after an unprecedented Ukrainian attack over the weekend on the Russian city of Belgorod.The attack on Saturday, which killed 2…
US says it hit two sites in Iraq in response to attacks
Baghdad (AFP) – US forces carried out new strikes against two sites in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for attacks by “Iran and Iran-backed groups,” US Central Command said. The US military “conducted discrete, precision strikes against two fa…
Fears for democracy growing after coups in Sahel and West Africa
France has started withdrawing its troops from Niger, months after the military coup in the west African state, with all 1,500 soldiers due to be back home before the end of the year. It is not the first time that Paris has brought back its soldiers f…
The Collapse of Global Arms Control
Crucial treaties built up during the Cold War have fallen apart in recent years, worrying arms control experts.
Fierce fighting in Gaza, as Hamas says Israel kills 30 in camp bombing
Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Israel pressed its war to crush Hamas on Sunday nearly a month after the worst attack in its history, as the Palestinian militant group said an Israeli bombing in Gaza killed dozens of people. Fighting cont…
‘Significant’ pause needed in Mideast conflict to win hostages’ release: US
Washington (AFP) – Talks are being held on a “very significant” pause in the Middle East conflict to win the release of dozens of hostages taken by Palestinian militant group Hamas, a senior US official said Friday. “It is something that is under a ve…
US says Putin seeking to ‘take advantage’ of Israel-Hamas war
Washington (AFP) – The United States accused Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday of trying to use the Israel-Hamas war to reduce Western support for Ukraine, which it said requires continued backing from Washington to prevent Russia success. Hama…