Africa’s role in nuclear debates and in opposing nuclear weapons is at once consequential and overlooked. Since the 1996 Treaty of Pelindaba, the African continent has been a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ), providing a powerful example of opposition ...
Anna-Mart van Wyk +2 more
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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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Reforming Export Control Regimes: Addressing Emerging Technologies Through Responsible Innovation
ABSTRACT The proliferation of dual‐use emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and additive manufacturing—poses a growing challenge for multilateral export control regimes. Designed for tangible goods and slower innovation cycles, existing arrangements increasingly struggle to govern technologies that are ...
Stella Blumfelde
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Contested Nuclear Sharing in Belgium: Domestic Political Dynamic for the Nuclear Weapons Ban
The successful conclusion of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has challenged the global nuclear order, but was dependent on bypassing the nuclear weapon states (NWS) and their allies.
Hartwig Hummel
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The international climate change regime and general principles of law
Abstract The Climate Change Advisory Opinion (AO) by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demonstrates the growing prominence of general principles of law in international law. The Climate Change AO was handed down at the end of the International Law Commission's project on general principles of law with the adoption of its Draft Conclusions.
Renatus Otto Franz Derler, Mads Andenas
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This article examines why and how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement as a whole have been contributing to the global efforts towards a world free of nuclear weapons since the ...
Linh Schroeder
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Victim Assistance under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: An Analysis
The article analyses the provision of victim assistance present under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) by examining the nature and scope of positive obligation on States Parties (affected states, user states and other states) to ...
Nidhi Singh
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The Treaty is Out of the Bottle: The Power and Logic of Nuclear Disarmament
The nuclear genie is out of the bottle, manifesting as nuclear proliferation. Efforts to contain it have generated another genie whose agenda is to establish a verifiable nuclear disarmament regime.
Merav Datan, Jürgen Scheffran
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Contests of legitimacy and value: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the logic of prohibition [PDF]
Abstract The recently adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has caused much debate and controversy in global nuclear politics. Given that the stated goal of the TPNW supporters (states and NGOs alike) is to embed the treaty in the structures of nuclear governance and to strengthen its normative power, how likely is ...
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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW): A further Step Regardingthe Unlawfulnessof the Use of Nuclear Weapons [PDF]
La adopción del tratado sobre la prohibición de las Armas Nucleares (TPAN) que propone una prohibición completa de este tipo de armas presta la oportunidad para reflexionar sobre la ilicitud del empleo y, en su caso, la determinación precisa de aquellos ...
Díaz Galán, Elena C. +1 more
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