It’s late April 2022 in Bologna and we meet in Franco’s apartment. He shows me his collection of collages he produced in the Covid period, his art therapy to fight off depression. The paintings can be found here and there online, exhibited under the pseudonym Istubalz. We’ve come together to discuss …

This paper focuses on the criticism that tribunals such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)2, by virtue of their reliance on customary law and other methods of determining existing norms, appear to violate the …

This publication marks the first results of the Tactical Media Room Ukraine project, launched in February 2022 in Amsterdam after the shocking Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Tactical Media Room is a network of activists, journalists, scholars, and artists linked by the exchange of ideas and …

Global issues, including the current pandemic and ongoing climate change, shape voluntary and forced international migration flows in inequitable ways. Anti-immigrant discourses in the Global North seek to capitalize on public concerns about border control. Meanwhile, the greatest immigration challenges …

How societies respond to the challenges of human migration is one of the most morally defining and socioeconomically consequential policy decisions of our time. As anti-immigrant parties across the Global North seek to capitalize on public concerns about immigrant inclusion and border control, immigration …

Against the backdrop of a complex and dynamic security arena, this exploratory Research Paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the concept of military policing. Military policing is usually defined as the performance of police-related tasks by the military. However, from the very start …

In the tenth issue of last year’s Militaire Spectator, Colonel Han Bouwmeester elaborated on the use of maskirovka and reflexive control prior to and during the planned Russian annexation of Crimea.1 Subsequently, in the twelfth issue, Ruben Tavenier addressed the numerous concepts that have been …

The conclusion of the first part of this article was that, when adhering to the phrase hybrid warfare in order to describe the violent conduct of war, the concept as defined by Frank Hoffman offers the best framework for analysing the Donbas War. This second part elaborates on that conclusion by …

In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there …

Since the start of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war, the Ukrainian armed forces have -quite unexpectedly- proven to be adept at withstanding the Russian onslaught on their territory. At the time of writing, the Russian armed forces have withdrawn from the Ukrainian capital and are making painfully little …