21 May 2026
More Than a Trade Route
The future regime of navigation in Hormuz and the Persian Gulf will necessarily be part of any long-term peace settlement in the region. At first glance, the path of regional cooperation does not look promising. The current turmoil, however, underscores an inescapable truth: the Gulf’s riparian countries share the same risks and cannot act in isolation to counter them. Continue reading >>
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14 April 2020
Not a Safe Place?
In an unprecedented move, the Italian government has declared Italy’s ports “unsafe” due to the COVID-19-pandemic. It did so by issuing an executive decree late Tuesday last week, seemingly in response to the rescue of 150 shipwrecked by the Sea-Eye’s Alan Kurdi. This is not the first time that the Italian government has used decrees to close its borders for sea-rescue ships. However, given the extraordinary circumstances of this case in the midst of the on-going Corona-crisis and the novel argument made by the Italian government, the decision warrants closer examination. Continue reading >>
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