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Volume 32 - Issue 2

Blood, Water, and the Indus Waters Treaty

Full Text The contested and divided province of Jammu and Kashmir, situated on the western side of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Mountains, is one of the most dangerous and heavily militarized places on earth. It is a Muslim-majority borderland harboring contested territorial claims of three nuclear powers—India, Pakistan, and China. Through it flow the headwaters…

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Contemporary Issues in Counter-Terrorism

Full Text The Editors of the Minnesota Journal of International Law chose to focus their 2019 Symposium on exploring contemporary challenges raised in the context of preventing and countering terrorism at the domestic and international levels. Their choice could not have been more topical: terrorist incidents have for years been regular occurrences in a number…

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Unravelling Socio-Economic and Ecological Distribution Conflicts in Ship-breaking in Bangladesh for Addressing Negative Externalities in Law and Policy Making

Full Text Ship-breaking is widely known as a colossally dangerous and polluting activity. Bangladesh has emerged as the market leader in ship-breaking, producing the highest amount of steel from recycling End of Life ships owned by global owners. Economic contribution of ship-breaking in Bangladesh has been well documented from the report published under the auspicious…

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