The article considers initiatives to regulate disarmament focusing on an indirect component of peace. Taking chosen public international law conventions on disarmament into account, it explores ways to deal with and prevent the risk of adverse impact of business activities on human rights. It...

Looming disasters mostly require collective action but international law is traditionally consent based. For a state to be bound by international law, it needs to have ratified a treaty (e.g. concerning climate change) or must be bound by customary international law. This horizontal form of...

This paper discusses the relationship between geography and politics; and more specifically, the relationship between sovereign claims and cartography. I introduce the term "cartopolitics" to describe a particular way of making space real and corresponding with politics that defines contemporary...