Recent Publications

• Implementing Integrated Deterrence in the Cyber Domain: The Role of Lawyers

  August 29, 2023

  Caroline Krass discusses the lawyers’ role in integrated deterrence at the U.S. Cyber Command Legal Conference, noting cybersecurity and compliance.

  

• Weapons Against the Weak

  June 29, 2023

  Sanctions enable Global North to coerce Global South. With rising multipolarity, this trend may shift, altering global economic dynamics.

  

• Discussant Comments

  June 29, 2023

  Achiume highlights global racial justice implications of sanctions, using TWAIL and LPE perspectives, urging a reset in sanctions debates.

  

• The Brutal Impact of Sanctions on the Global South

  June 28, 2023

  Sanctions and their damage to the Global South by actively undermining economic development systems and resources. 

  

• The Antinomies of “Peaceful” Economic Sanctions

  June 28, 2023

  The antinomies of “peaceful sanctions” as symptomatic of the material basis of the international legal order.

  

• The Fog of Peace: Who Profits from Economic Sanctions?

  June 27, 2023

  Sustaining the myth of the dichotomy between the domains of war and peace exacerbates the vulnerability of certain states.

  

• Economic Sanctions and Humanitarian Principles: Lessons from International Humanitarian Law

  June 26, 2023

  Sanctions often serve as a means of waging economic warfare in an era of intensified geopolitical tension. 

  

• Successful Failures: Economic Sanctions, Humanitarianism, and the Undoing of Post-Colonial Sovereignty

  June 26, 2023

  The successful failure of the humanitarian critique of economic sanctions as it relates to humanitarian relief provided to Afghans.

  

• Situating Unilateral Coercive Measures Within a Broader Understanding of Systemic Violence

  June 23, 2023

  Unilateral coercive measures may often create or worsen a protracted crisis and can prove ineffective, inhibiting aid and magnifying harm.

  

• Sanctions’ New Colonizers

  June 22, 2023

  In the current moment of U.S. financial imperialism and economic sanctions, a host of “new” colonizers have emerged, empowering private parties.