I’ll save you the guesswork. On July 21, Donald Trump will become the Republican nominee for president of the United States. On July 28, Hillary Clinton will become the Democratic nominee.Trump’s pending coronation won’t please elected Republicans who put the nation’s welfare above party loyalty. Nor will it please demonstrators who in all likelihood will storm around parts of downtown Cleveland to protest the nomination of someone who has gone out of his way to denigrate Latinos, blacks, Muslim

To no one’s surprise, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has upheld all the key arguments of the Philippines in its case against China on the application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the South China Sea. In its ruling, which employed even tougher language than most expected, the tribunal cut the legal heart out of China’s claim that the sea is, in effect, a Chinese lake.The PCA ruled that China’s “nine-dash line,” a 1940s-era delineation that implies own

The ruling against China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague will be met with relief in the region’s capitals. But it is unlikely to reverse one of Asia’s most worrying trends: an alarming regional arms build-up.According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Asia now accounts for almost half of the world’s arms expenditure, which is more than twice the total expenditure of countries in the Middle East and four times g

Recently, a middle-aged Korean-American man wrote about his impressions of Korea on Facebook after a sojourn in Seoul. First of all, he was quite impressed by the convenient electronic devices pervasive in Korean society. “Thanks to the automatic identification system installed at the entrance,” he wrote, “Korean drivers can smoothly drive though the parking lot without stopping to pull out a parking slip.” He was also impressed when he saw Koreans efficiently transfer between the subway and bus

When I mention my profession, the first question people usually ask is how international law is enforced. As a matter of fact, international law has a relatively weak enforcement mechanism. While some of the newer norms are equipped with stronger mechanisms of enforcement, such as trade or investment), there are other norms that are characterized by the lack or absence of enforcement mechanism. One thing people usually miss here, however, is that states abide by judgments of international courts