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Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung @leibniz-ios.de · 01/06/2026

📣 #CfA: We invite applications for up to two Visiting Fellowships on the politics of international law, contested sovereignty & hybrid conflicts in the #SouthCaucasus. Funded by @daadworldwide.bsky.social, co-organized w/ Yerevan State University. 📅 Deadline: 20 June ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

Flyer for the Visiting Fellows Program 2026 at IOS Regensburg. Application deadline: 20 June 2026. Duration: up to 3 months within 2026. Focus: "Contested Spaces, Fragmented Orders: International Law and Politics in the South Caucasus." Target audience: PhD holders and experienced researchers. Benefits: monthly stipend, travel allowance, research support. Co-funded by DAAD and German Federal Foreign Office.

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am pleased to share that my book, Development of Regional International Law: Lessons from Russia and Eurasia, is now forthcoming in the Routledge Research in International Law series, with publication expected in late 2026.

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Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung @leibniz-ios.de · 22/04/2026

🔗 Follow us to stay updated on the latest news from our department. You can also connect with some team members on Bluesky. Meet: @cindywittke.bsky.social @faburkhardt.bsky.social @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social @merrittfedzin.bsky.social @simonian.bsky.social 3/3

Slider with a photo of a person and text: Ekaterina Paustyan, PhD, Research Associate. Ekaterina is a postdoctoral researcher working on authoritarian regimes, territorial politics, electoral manipulation, and political elites. Her regional focus is on Russia, Ukraine, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Slider with a photo of a person and text: Dr. Artur Simonyan, Research Associate. Artur is a postdoctoral researcher. His DFG-funded project, “Peripheral Historiographies of International Law: The Armenian Case,” explores international law in (semi-)peripheral contexts, with a focus on Armenia.

Slider with text: Want to see more? Learn more about our staff, recent publications, presentations, and public engagement: www.leibniz-ios.de/en/politics

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Lauterpacht Centre for International Law @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Reminder for tomorrow's lunchtime lecture 1 pm Fri 30 January: ''Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law' - Prof Lauri Mälksoo, University of Tartu. Sandwich lunch from 12.30 pm. All welcome to attend. Further info: buff.ly/CPJCpEx

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Looking for help accessing an article on HeinOnline. John Russell, “Improbable Unions: The Draft Union Treaties in the USSR, 1990–1991”, Review of Central and East European Law, vol. 22 (1996), pp. 389–416. If anyone has access and could share a PDF, I’d be extremely grateful.

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Prof. Dr. Cindy Wittke-Hohlfeld @cindywittke.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Reminder 📣 Job Opportunity at IOS Regensburg! Postdoctoral Academic Coordinator (f/m/d) for the KonKoop Early Career Lab on Peace & Conflict Studies (focus: Eastern & Southeastern Europe). Apply by 9 Nov 2025 → www.leibniz-ios.de/en/vacancies... #academia #peacestudies #EasternEurope #jobsinresearch

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Vacancies and Internships

Current vacancies and internships at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Delighted to announce the publication of our co-authored article with Liliya Khasanova in the Chinese Journal of International Law (Oxford University Press), titled “(Geo)politicizing International Law of Cyberspace in Post-Soviet Eurasia.” academic.oup.com/chinesejil/a...

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(Geo)politicizing International Law of Cyberspace in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Abstract. Great powers often (geo)politicize legal norms, principles, and discourses to advance a particular vision of cyberspace regulation within specifi

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Kicked off our first workshop, "Territory & Territoriality in Eurasia: Law & Geopolitics," at the European University Institute! Excited for our book project with Edward Elgar Publishing, I am co-editing with Lucia Leontiev. Thanks to all authors & special shoutout to Lucia for hosting!

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Excited to announce the upcoming workshop,Territory and Territoriality in Eurasia: Law and Geopolitics, happening on 21 March 2025 at @eui-eu.bsky.social. This is part of @elgarpublishing.bsky.social book project I'm co-editing with Lucia Leontiev. Full program here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

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Territory and territoriality in Eurasia: law and geopolitics

This MWP workshop will discuss the law and politics of territory in Eurasia from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New opinion piece: The 2025 Munich Security Conference as a defining moment for international law. I explore how shifting global power dynamics are reshaping legal frameworks, including the Ukraine conflict and democracy in global governance. www.e-ir.info/2025/03/03/o...

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Opinion – The 2025 Munich Security Conference as a Defining Moment

The 2025 Munich Security Conference solidified a decisive shift in international legal discourse, moving from the post-Cold War liberal order toward a framework shaped by realpolitik.

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thrilled to share that my latest article, Russia’s Counter-revolutionary International Law in the Scholarship of Boris Mirkine-Guetzévitch, is now published in the European Journal of International Law (Volume 35, Issue 3, 2024)!

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Russia’s Counter-revolutionary International Law in the Scholarship of Boris Mirkine-Guetzévitch

In the 1920s and early 1930s, several Russian international legal scholars – Baron Taube, Baron Nolde, André Mandelstam, Alexander Makarov and others – del

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

📣 Publication day: a piece I worked on for a very long time - and that I wrote quite some time ago - has been published in the German Yearbook of International Law: "Russia’s Use of Demographic Engineering to Affirm Sovereignty Over Adjacent Territories" elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7487...

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Duncker & Humblot - Berlin: Russia’s Use of Demographic Engineering to Affirm Sovereignty Over Adjacent Territories

Ein Forum für die Wissenschaft seit 1798.

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

[Publication Day] I am excited to share my latest article in the Baltic Yearbook of International Law! I explore the three patterns of desovietizing int. law in post-Soviet Eurasia, highlighting Russia’s post-imperial behavior and a Eurasian take on uti possidetis juris. brill.com/view/journal...

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KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" @kfgintlaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

At our last Monday Meeting our Senior Fellow Nicolas Lamp gave us a glimpse into his new project on “Trading in (Dis)Order: The Backlash against Globalization and the Future of International Trade Law and Policy”. With this look into the future we then enojyed some 🍕 & 🥂 in the ☀️!

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

The Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers will host an event on Gaza on March 14 at 3pm CET on Zoom. The event is open to all, from scholars to students and early and practitioners. You can register here: forms.gle/NhtP4h17C5D8... please share widely!

Poster of event Legal Consequences of the Situation in the Gaza Strip: Conflict, Occupation, and International Crimes - taking place on March 14 2024 on Zoom, hosting Triestino Mariniello, Ata Hindi, and Kathryn Ravey

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Excited to co-organize this workshop on double standards in international law, 15-16 July in Berlin with @kfgintlaw.bsky.social. Please send us your abstracts or be in touch if interested in this project more generally www.kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2...

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Heike Krieger @heikekrieger.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Proceedings instituted by the Republic of Nicaragua against the Federal Republic of Germany on 1 March 2024 including provisional measures www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

The University of Nottingham invites you to our event ‘Ukraine Beyond Aggression: Legal Responses to Russia’s Invasion in 2022 and its Consequences’ on the 21st of February from 14:00-17:30 (GMT). Register at ukraine-beyond-aggression.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ukraine Beyond Aggression

Join the HRLC and NILSC for our upcoming event examining the legal responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and its consequences.

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KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" @kfgintlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Yesterday we had the pleasure to listen to our fellow @simonian.bsky.social present his paper on "Desovietizing international law: local expertise, living empire and uti possidetis" which is forthcoming in the Baltic Yearbook of International Law!

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KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" @kfgintlaw.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

At today's lunch talk Artur Simonyan (@simonian.bsky.social) delved into another region of the world with his thought-provoking presentation on “Regional International Law in post-Soviet Eurasia"

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KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" @kfgintlaw.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

At yesterday's lunch talk Christian Marxsen presented his intriguing forthcoming article on "Use of force: A comprehensive analysis of state practice between 1945 and 2020" which he co-authored with Florian Kriener - a dive into quantitative analysis and the use of force.

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

In this post, I look at Israeli settlements in Palestine and analysing the history of the legal concept of forcible transfer, I argue that besides individual war crimes in time of occupation they're also part of wrongful acts entailing state responsibility under international law. 🧵 1/

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Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Demographic Changes, and Forcible Transfer as a...

The illegality of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories under international law have long been a contentious issue and is the focus of the 2022 request for an ICJ Advisory Opin...

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Artur Simonyan @simonian.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

My article ‘Science of International Law and Regional Orders: A Critical Appraisal of Alejandro Alvarez and Carl Schmitt” is published in Revista Tribuna Internacional - prime publication of University of Chile, School of Law.

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Science of International Law and Regional Orders: A Critical Appraisal of Alejandro Álvarez and Car...

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