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Introduction Since the onset of the Ukraine war in 2022, commercial relations between Japan and Russia have come under considerable strain. In reaction to the invasion, Japan enacted a broad range of economic sanctions against Russia, which included rescinding Russia’s most-favored-nation (MFN) status and freezing the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian central bank. [1]  Russia, for its part, retaliated by suspending peace treaty talks with Japan and e

AI Generated Image Introduction As geopolitical tensions mount, public health crises proliferate and socioeconomic inequalities widen,...

Image Generated by AI Introduction Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the global community has been...

Photo Credit: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Introduction The maritime agreement between Israel and Lebanon, signed on...

Photo Credit: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Introduction Russia has been a security challenge for Japan since the...

Photo Credit: The Insider The Red Sea has long served as a critical waterway in the maritime domain. As a gateway to the Suez Canal, the...

Kulusuk Village, East Greenland. Photo provided by Pixabay.com Introduction The world’s great power states are gearing up for the cold...

Photo Credit: US Coast Guard Introduction   In 2020, the Shiprider Agreement faced scrutiny when the US Coast Guard detained the crew of...

Photo Credit: Council on Foreign Relations Introduction When leaders of the now 70-year-old alliance met in the White House on April 26...

Photo Credit: LukasJohnns (Pixabay) Introduction    This author has written an analysis of an alternative way to face the Ukrainian war...

Introduction Territorial and maritime disputes have seen resurgence, posing significant challenges to international relations and...

Photo from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/24/explainer-what-is-nagorno-karabakh-why-are-tensions-rising In the late 1980s and...

Fishing Boats and Old Ruin in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo provided by Pexels.com Introduction Maritime piracy is a phenomenon that afflicts...

Photo provided by pixabay.com Gibraltar is a colony of the UK also known as the Crown Colony Gibraltar. It is also a place of contention...

Homes pack an atoll in the Marshall Islands. Photo from the LA Times, Carolyn Cole The last three decades the international community has...

Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. Photo from the Associated Press, Mark Schiefelbein I. Introduction Last year, China...

Interview with Sriparna Pathak, co-author with Obja Borah Hazarik of "Reasons and Reactions to the Galwan Clash: An Indian Perspective."

JTMS Interview with Edcel John A. Ibarra regarding his article on SCS conflict resolution published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of JTMS.

Can Isreal's Movement of an Oil Production Platform into Waters Claimed by Lebanon be Reconciled with International Law?

JTMS Interview with Edcel John A. Ibarra regarding his article on SCS conflict resolution published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of JTMS.