While the landing of China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft on the moon earlier this month was a significant event on humanity’s collective journey through space, the planting of a Chinese flag on the lunar surface raises serious …
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The important institutions of constitutional democracy and international law have recently suffered serious damage. The long-term prospects for peace and stability have been undercut as a result. The US Senate’s failure to fulfil its constitutional …
Laws and regulations covering outer space are mired in geopolitical gridlock and are failing to keep pace with burgeoning commercial use of space and new technologies. Dependency on space is increasing both in everyday civilian …
As the Geneva Conventions turn 70, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is changing its guide to how new weapons are reviewed. Here’s why we need to pay attention. After witnessing the Battle …
In 1918 prominent American philosopher James H. Tufts asked, ‘Is there, can there be, any ethics of international relations?’ In the turbulent century since, that question has inspired many attempts at an answer. Contemporary events …