An armed conflict between China and the United States would have catastrophic consequences. Not only would it cost many lives and entail incalculable risks of escalation, but it would also cause political disorder and imply high economic costs for the European Union. Out of peace policy and economic self-interest, Europe should therefore work to maintain the peaceful status quo in …

It is no secret that the world’s attention tends to be selective; to pick and choose among the issues that are easier to get behind and cause outrage at any given time. While modern media allow determined stories of injustice to not only come to the surface, but also to be widely addressed, which can undoubtedly not be considered reproachable, …

Since the war outbreak, millions of Ukrainians have left their country. Many have lost their homes, family members and friends and now live in Poland, Romania or Germany. No one is imposing time limits on them, understandably. Simultaneously many Russians also left their country. They are people who left after the war began, out of horror at the government, fear …

That zone is situated just before the “Green line” (border between Israel and the West Bank) and of the many fronts within the Middle East conflict, Masafer Yatta is a particularly ugly one. In the “Wild West” of Palestine, 1300 people are threatened with displacement – in favour of a training area for the Israeli army. Just recently, a demolition …

Over the latest decades, a controversial question has roamed the environments of Global Security, both in academia and on the political scene: is NATO an obsolete institution? Many wondered what purposes might the organisation serve in a world where its initial rationale as an opposing party to the Soviet Union had fallen, and its member countries suffered virtually no active …

In February 2015, a rare summit of Russian, Ukrainian, German, and French leaders aimed to restore peace to parts of Ukraine taken over by pro-Russian rebels the year before. These territories became known as the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in Ukraine’s Donbas region (DPR). The Ukrainian administration in Kyiv said that the two territories …

The International Court of Justice was established in 1945 to resolve legal disputes brought to it by Member States in accordance with international law, and to provide advisory opinions on legal problems referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies. Impartiality and political neutrality are supposed to be the ICJ’s main objectives. As the principal judicial organ of …

War criminals and dictators should not go unpunished – that was the idea when the International Criminal Court, short ICC, in The Hague began its work in 2002. But since 2015-2016 it is in crisis: several African countries have declared their withdrawal. Their argument: only Africans would be sentenced. Summer 2015: The central African country of Burundi is drowning in …

In Europe, the past months have been regarded as showcases of the extents of humanitarian and governmental solidarity, as millions of refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine were welcomed across the continent. Such openness towards Ukrainians, however, bitterly highlights the hypocrisy inherent in the differences in treatment of asylum-seekers of other provenances, of which the latest refugee policy of the …

While the UN Security Council tried to prevent a war against Ukraine, Russia’s President Putin unapologetically sent his troops. The UN Security Council has no significant influence because of the veto power of individual members. Many are therefore pushing for a reform. The powerlessness of the UN Security Council has again been obvious in the Ukraine crisis. Just as the …