Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J. Trump’s ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict’ and granted international legitimacy to the establishment of the Board of Peace. Explaining how Resolution 2803 violates the peremptory norm of self-determination, Shah argues for its illegality.
Category Archive: TWAILR: Reflections
Grace Tsegakele reflects on African states’ responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and argues that their varied voting patterns at the United Nations General Assembly are best understood not as inconsistency or indifference, but as an expression of structured ambivalence, a strategic and historically informed approach to international legal observance.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Shahd Hammouri reflects on the legacy and relevance of the UNCTC for contemporary questions around corporate accountability in contexts of war, apartheid and occupation.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), River Baars reflects on a series of documents leading up to the establishment of the UNCTC, reading them alongside the work of Walter Rodney, and argues that radical anti-capitalist positions were foreclosed from the very outset of the UNCTC.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Kalika Mehta reflects on a series of internal UNCTC ‘overview’ reports to chart a shift from an explicitly political, NIEO inspired project of disciplining transnational corporations in the service of redistribution towards a more depoliticised, technocratic language of managing and measuring their effects.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Caitlin Murphy reflects on corporate ‘counter-strategies’ to the Third World’s NIEO agenda through the lens of a 1978 report produced jointly by the UNCTC and the UN Industrial Development Organisation on transnational corporations and the processing of raw materials.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Wanshu Cong reflects on UNCTC analysis of cross-border data flows and what it revealed about the structural asymmetries between global North and South.
Guest editors André Dao and Shahd Hammouri introduce a special TWAILR symposium reflecting on the archive and legacy of the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations.
Drawing on the tradition of TWAIL engagement with the praxis, Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín traces how his liminal identities (between Europeanness and non-Europeanness) have shaped his scholarship as a Latin American researcher situated in Europe while working in the archives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Veronica Kiang examines the rising demand for gold in technology and its disproportionate effects on West African nations in the Communauté Financière Africaine (CFA) franc zone. In unraveling how imperialism continues to manifest in the “Technocene”, she argues that racial capitalism and extractivist practices function to further entrench enduring colonial hierarchies, as the case of West Africa illustrates.