Friedrich Arndt

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G8 leaders watch the Champions League final - in pictures The meeting at Camp David wrapped up on Saturday, but it was not all hard work for the leaders. There was time for birthday cake, and the leaders watched the Bayern Munich v Chelsea final together

(Pete Souza via theguardian.com/world/galler...)

Just stumbled over this gem...

My rational self knows that the world has been and always will be complex, brutal, and ugly to some degree in many places. But to my heart, this really captures "easier times".

(it might also help that I was 16 at the time)

Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines The Eagle S incident – a refresher On Christmas Day 2024, the Estlink 2 electricity cable connecting Finland and Estonia was cut by the Eagle S, an oil tanker sailing under the flag of the Cook Island...

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While much of the commentary on the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion rightly focuses on its legal conclusions, my latest blog post takes a different approach. I read the opinion as an act of institutional self-presentation: a moment where the Court constructs its own role in the international order.

For the first time, CIR has uncovered the location of a Sudanese RSF military camp in the desert of Sudan’s neighbour, Libya.

It is directly linked to the war in Sudan.

We will show you where, we will show you how.

Watch in full now: youtu.be/umaFPlwJUKM

A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

F.A.Z. Einspruch News Podcast · Updated weekly · Ukraine-Krieg, Datenschutz, Mord und Totschlag: Keine Woche vergeht, ohne dass neue Gesetze und Urteile die Öffentlichkeit beschäftigen. Jeden Mittwoch verhandeln wir d...

(Siehe zum Urteil auch Heiko Sauer hier, ab Min. 17:47, podcasts.apple.com/cd/podcast/3...) 9/

Genau. Ich glaube auch ehrlich, dass es zumindest für absehbare Zeit dabei bleibt. Das wären schon sehr spezielle Konstellationen in denen sich die beiden Vertretbarkeitsprüfungen inhaltlich unterscheiden würden. Aber vorstellbar, zB bei unterschiedlichen völkerr. Verpflichtungen BRD/Drittstaat

Zitat aus unserem Blogpost vom Autor Friedrich Arndt: „Indem sich das Gericht bei der Kontrolle von Völkerrechtsfragen gerade im grundrechtssensiblen Bereich zurücknimmt, lässt es die Tore für eine „deference to the executive“ offen.“

Im Ramstein-Urteil erkennt das BVerfG die Möglichkeit einer Schutzpflicht auch in Bezug auf das Handeln eines anderen Staates an.

Aber, so FRIEDRICH ARNDT, es verpasse auch die Chance, diese Schutzpflicht einer adäquaten gerichtlichen Kontrolle zu unterziehen.

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Ukraine: Plötzlich Massen-Proteste gegen Selenskyj! Mit Vassili Golod RONZHEIMER. · Episode

Danke für die Einladung, lieber @ronzheimer.bsky.social. Wir sprechen über die Proteste in der Ukraine, ihre Hintergründige und die Folgen für den Krieg.

The polarising power of Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s other wartime leader President Zelenskyy’s right-hand man is fuelling concerns over creeping authoritarianism

Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising.
Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him.
My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal
www.ft.com/content/4d61...

And I will repeat this: There was an agreement last Monday that even Hijri agreed to (under pressure from mainstream Druze factions). It was the IDF bombing and then “backing” Hijri in hope of the chaos of ensuring a fragmented south Syria that led to this.

Playing on old grievances and no central

There is some degree of less-than-angelic legal maneuvering involved. But I think there's a good case to argue that since Art. 20 (4) allows withdrawal of reservations to Art. 20 (2) "at any time", it is - although "ungentlemanly" - admissible to withdraw and then sue. (5/5)

IMHO: Belarus has a point vis-a-vis the EU/Polish/Austrian objections. The declaration only stipulates what Belarus considers "good faith interpretation" of Art. 20 (2)-(4).
Now, whether that is true, i.e., whether 'retroactive withdrawals' are effectual, is debatable. (4/5)

in which they argue that the Belarusian declaration amounts to a reservation that was inadmissible, since reservations could only be issued upon signing/ratification of the Protocol, and only regarding Art. 20 (2), not (4). (3/5)

it considers itself not bound to Art. 20 (2) in such a case of 'retroactive' withdrawal of a jurisdictional reservation.(treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDe...)
The EU, Poland, and Austria issued communications (treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDe.... (2/5)

Interesting wrinkle:
Lithuania withdrew its reservation to the compromissory clause in Art. 20 (2) in 2023, i.e., after the situation at the border had already arisen. (treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDe...)
Belarus reacted with an interpretative declaration that... (1/5)

a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters ALT: a man in a suit says this is ridiculous in white letters

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".

Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky

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Hamas Attacks, Israel Bombs Gaza and Misinformation Surges Online - bellingcat Videos supposedly from the latest escalation of the conflict are actually years old, from the wrong country or don’t depict a warzone at all.

As the situation escalates in Israel-Palestine, misinformation is rife. It can be difficult to decipher what is really happening and what is not. Our team has gathered examples of misrepresented footage and imagery from the latest conflict, helping you tell facts from fiction

We're aware of a fake BBC video circulating on social media falsely claiming that Bellingcat has verified Ukrainian weapons sales to Hamas. We've reached no such conclusions or made any such claims. We'd like to stress that this is a fabrication and should be treated accordingly.

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