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Why do non-State armed groups detain?

In January 2020, the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued a report detailing the activities of the different parties to the conflict(s), including non-State armed groups (NSAGs). The...

Ezequiel Heffes | 27 Jul 2022

Progressives, Moderates, and the Politics of Principle and Pragmatism

There is much agreement among ‘progressives’ and ‘moderates’ that the modern Republican Party is an existential threat to American democracy. This agreement, I believe, is well-founded. With notable...

Eric W. Cheng | 27 Jul 2022

Fundamentals of Operating Department Practice

The operating department is strange; it is at once familiar to the public and those that work in the hospital and yet at the same time an unknown ritualistic world hidden behind locked doors, with its...

Daniel Rodger | 25 Jul 2022

Is International Law Relevant to the Arab-Israeli Conflict?

It is axiomatic that States act out of their own self–interest, dictated by political, military and economic considerations. Furthermore, international law lacks the elements one normally associates...

Robbie Sabel | 22 Jul 2022

What happened to the Lubanga Case? Between malfunctions and errors of AWS.

What does it mean to say that a weapon or a system is autonomous? As simple as this question sounds, the term opens a pandora’s box, because ‘autonomy’ has different meanings according to the field...

Afonso Seixas-Nunes | 21 Jul 2022

Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity

How Progressive Writers, Anna Jameson to Vernon Lee, Sought and Found An Alternative Germany. LADY BRACKNELL ...

Linda K. Hughes | 19 Jul 2022

Studying Genealogies of Black Sovereignty and Joy

Scholars have long argued that slavery deprived men and women of African descent of sovereignty and that the violence it visited daily on their bodies and psyche closed all possibilities of joy. Indeed,...

Miguel A. Valerio | 15 Jul 2022

History, Rights, and Constitutional Law

The Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overruled Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case recognizing a right to an abortion, and the 1992 Casey decision that reaffirmed Roe. From any...

H. Jefferson Powell | 12 Jul 2022

Telling evolutionary stories

Evolutionary biologists are storytellers. We are in the business of telling more or less informed stories about the evolution of lineages. But we operate under a curse. What we are most interested in,...

Ronald A. Jenner | 11 Jul 2022

Resilient and Sustainable Farming Systems in Europe

What exactly is resilience and how can it be enhanced? Farming systems in Europe are rapidly evolving while being at the same time under threat, as seen by the disappearance of dozens of farms every day....

Bárbara Soriano, Erik Mathijs, Julie Urquhart, Alisa Spiegel, Alberto Garrido, Peter H. Feindt, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen | 8 Jul 2022

What is International Asteroid Day All About?

Every year June 30 marks International Asteroid Day. A United Nations resolution from 2016 declares that that holiday serves to mark “the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federation,...

Andy Bruno | 7 Jul 2022

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century

To the parodyists Sellar and Yeatman, the Norman Conquest of 1066 was one of only two noteworthy dates in English history. The date has loomed large in literary histories too, where it has been considered...

Mark Faulkner | 5 Jul 2022