In this Reflection, Manas Raj Singh argues that the 2025-26 U.S.-India tariff dispute did not mark the collapse of a rules-based order but rather exposed the enduring coercive structures that have long underpinned international economic governance. Drawing on TWAIL scholarship, he traces how different legal instruments have repeatedly constrained the policy autonomy of states in the Global South.
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Amrisha Tripathi describes how Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine has exposed a foundational crisis within the post-war international legal order, particularly the systematic collapse of jus cogens. Crucially for TWAIL, Tripathi applies her critique to India, considering India’s pivot from anticolonial solidarity to transactional realpolitik with Israel.
Recording of Shahd Hammouri’s remarks at the May 2026 ‘Humanity at a Crossroads’ symposium on the invisibility of, and lack of reaction to, Israeli atrocities in Lebanon over recent months.
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.
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.
Watch the webinar: in a timely and critical conversation on the state of humanitarianism in the West Bank today, this webinar traces how humanitarian action has evolved and how these actors operate within a broader landscape of occupation, violence, and structural injustice.
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.
Please join us on Wednesday 19 November 2025 for an important webinar on Genocide in the Age of Economic and Physical Coercion.
Adil Hasan Khan’s reflection celebrates Antony Anghie’s formative TWAIL text, drawing on Khan’s presentation at the ‘Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law: 20 Years On’ Conference organised by the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law in Naarm/Melbourne on 7 and 8 August 2025.
This online lecture series seeks to foster interdisciplinary and historically-inflected discussions about how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources. In Semester 2, the lecture series will focus on resources struggles in the context of occupation around the world. We will collectively explore how struggles over resource plunder and exploitation shape the dynamics of occupation, and how peoples under occupation are contesting extraction and asserting ownership and sovereignty over resources as part of a broader resistance movements. Speakers will examine resource struggles under occupation in Greenland, West Papua, Palestine, Kashmir, Bougainville and Western Sahara to consider the different forms of political contestation they produce and how resource struggles might be mobilised to enliven political possibilities for self-determination and decolonisation.