The declaration of state of emergency is a common legal practice used by states to overcome extraordinary situations. Within the framework of the state of emergency, on the one hand,…
…the emergence of subnational governments in foreign activities, which can also be understood as paradiplomacy. However, there has been limited state-level analysis of how paradiplomacy relates to the evolving state…
On 29 June 2014, the ISIS/ISIL or Daesh announced the change of its name to just “Islamic State” (IS), proclaimed itself a “Caliphate” and named its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi…
…states: between 2015-2017, most hydrocarbons-exporting rentier states, while remaining open to economically vital inflows of temporary migrant workers, adapted their legislation to make it particularly restrictive towards asylum seekers. More…
…of Soviet “cyclical violence,” as many scholars argue, but generated a continuum of hibernating but never ceasing state violence which was easily triggered locally by the regional actors. OKSANA ERMOLAEVA…
…recognition of the state. However, once the UAE’s federal structure became a reality, the state needed to increase loyalty to the federal state. This study examines why the UAE needed…
…and the system of intermediation of interests. However, although it has surpassed the State’s dimension of power, it created new interstate dimensions and new relations between powers, particularly at the…
…solidarity, mutual respect, transparency and responsibility has enabled the signing of various agreements between Cabo Verde and the United States of America in the areas of security and defence, development…
…the state lacks an organised, coherent, and continued reaction to the practice and the belief. The state’s inertia evades the liberal predicaments and legal provisions, which criminalise any infanticide as…
In the aftermath of revelations made by ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden about violation of privacy of individuals by states in the name of surveillance, right to privacy became one of…