Category: Conduct of War
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The Mladić Appeal Verdict
Genocide and the Last Chance for Bosnian Reconciliation By James Gow The Appeals Chamber verdict in the trial of Ratko Mladić is the last chance to secure a guilty verdict of genocide for the events in 1992. Those events were widely labelled ‘genocide’ and actually spawned the creation of the Yugoslavia Tribunal. It has been…
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From ‘Lawfare’ to ‘Lawcraft’: Law in the Service of Contemporary Statecraft and Foreign Policy
By Francisco Lobo This year the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy held the “2021 McCain Conference: The Ethics of Intelligence and Grey Zone Operations.” The last session of the Conference was devoted to the topic of ‘Lawfare.’ Despite enjoying doctrinal recognition in contemporary literature, this portmanteau combining the words “law”…