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[Nuclear disarmament] Thea Coventry: ‘Codifying legal norms might not prevent nuclear war, but it does help to create a world where nuclear weapons are unthinkable’
25 August 2022 By Jasper Schellekens and Pascal MesserWhile war is threatening the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, representatives of nearly two hundred states are meeting at the United Nations in New York to review the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. We asked T...
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Watch now: 'The fight for human rights: Lessons from Afghanistan' with Asser Institute fellow Nader Nadery
19 August 2022In a really insightful episode of the interview series Battlegrounds (Hoover Institution), Asser Institute Fellow Nader Nadery looks back on the dire situation in Afghanistan, a year after Kabul fell to the Taliban. In the interview Nadery discusses human righ...
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[Interview] Asser researcher Stavros Evdokimos Pantazopoulos: 'Ecocide carries a symbolic value'
17 August 2022 By Diva EstantoThe screening of environmental hazards in Ukraine confirms that war is toxic to the environment. The Russian military, for instance, attacked a tank of nitric acid that released a fume of toxic smoke. Russia’s invasion also threatens the nuclear and chemical ...
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[Blog post] The European Union’s sanctioning of Russian military officers: an urge for caution
9 August 2022James Patrick Sexton, junior researcher at the Asser Institute, recently published a blog post, ‘The European Union’s Sanctioning of Russian Military Officers: An Urge for Caution’, where he examines the European Union’s (EU) two most recent rounds of sanction...
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[Annual Report 2021] Rethinking public interests - Reflecting on the role of law in contemporary global challenges
4 August 2022The Asser Institute Annual Report 2021 is available online. The report reflects on the activities of the past year and highlights the impact and diversity of the research, training, publications and education. In our Annual Report 2021 we look back at a year ...