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23 Sep 2010, 8:27 am
by Chris Borgen I’d like to pick up a thread is in Chiara’s book and is teased out in both Gian Luca’s post and Ben Davis’s comment on Chiara’s most recent post on Somalia: the view that state failure is notan “on/ off” characteristic, but rather is a continuum ranging from governments that are somewhat incompetent (insert your state of choice here) to essentially nonexistent (Somalia). [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 8:58 pm
by Chris Borgen We are very pleased to host from today through Friday an online symposium considering Chiara Giorgetti’s book A Principled Approach to State Failure: International Community Actions in Emergency Situations (Brill 2010). [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 2:42 pm
by Chris Borgen The AsianSIL has a call for papers for its Third Biennial Conference which will be held August 27-28, 2011 in Beijing. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 11:59 am
by Chris Borgen Alan Feuer has a very interesting article in today’s NY Times about the Analytic Unit of the NYPD’s Intelligence Division. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 11:24 am
by Chris Borgen OK, I never thought I’d write a post tying international arbitration, chess federation elections, and post-Soviet politics together. [read post]
12 Sep 2010, 12:18 pm
by Chris Borgen Something that our European readers have already probably heard as it is one of the most viewed stories on the BBC website (but not so much here in the U.S.), the Basque separatist terrorist organization ETA has renounced (at least for now) the use of violence: Armed Basque separatist group Eta says it will not carry out “armed actions” in its campaign for independence. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 3:03 pm
by Chris Borgen Next week the ICJ will have oral proceedings in the case Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 12:19 pm
by Chris Borgen As you may remember from my previous post on this topic, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the President of the autonomous republic of Kalmikia the President of FIDE (the world chess federation), has been named in a suit before the Court of Arbitration for Sport seeking the disqualification of his FIDE candidacy. [read post]
5 Sep 2010, 12:28 pm
by Chris Borgen Via BLDGBLOG and Pruned (1, 2), here are two suggestions that are not so much literal proposals but rather thought experiments, each meant to prod the viewer. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 12:24 pm
by Chris Borgen Matt Armstrong, who blogs at MountainRunner, has an article in the current World Politics Review called Reforming Smith-Mundt: Making American Public Diplomacy Safe for Americans. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 3:29 pm
by Chris Borgen Brad Roth has sent along a link to this New York Times editorial, which begins: If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a country? [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:34 pm
by Chris Borgen It’s not often that you run into a story that combines international arbitration, Kremlin politics, post-Soviet autocrats, utopian urban projects, transnational networks, electoral politics, and chess. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 10:37 am
But my co-blogger at Opinio Juris, Chris Borgen (an expert in secession issues and particularly the former Soviet bloc), explains all this in a pair of posts here and here; likewise Marko Milanovic at the European Journal of International Law blog in a detailed, lawyerly post. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 7:15 am
by Chris Borgen Now that I’ve had a chance to read through the ICJ’s advisory opinion, following are a few initial reactions. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 7:23 am
by Chris Borgen According to the Associated Press: The United Nations’ highest court says Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia did not break international law. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 2:39 pm
Leaving my inadequacies aside, however, Chris at OJ has a fascinating post on the intersection of soccer and international law, specifically the recognition of which places count as countries to be able to send teams, and what those who don’t count are doing instead. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 6:47 am
by Chris Borgen Padania’s victory was not in the football (American translation: “soccer”) World Cup being played in South Africa but in the one that was just played in Gozo. [read post]
19 May 2010, 1:16 pm
by Chris Borgen John Robb notes the following on his excellent Global Guerillas blog: Coast Guard and BP’s private military contractors team up to enforce media and scientific blackout (part of BP’s information operations campaign) on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. [read post]
18 May 2010, 12:15 am
by Chris Borgen There’s a post that’s been making the rounds in the science fiction blogosphere that warrants note by those interested in international law, especially in regards to issues of international trade, development, and regulation. [read post]
5 May 2010, 11:02 am
by Chris Borgen My colleague Marc DeGirolami has a guest post over at PrawfsBlawg reacting to an op-ed in today’s New York Times by Jean-François Copé, the the majority leader of the French National Assembly, in which Copé defends banning the burqa and the niqab. [read post]
