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A Critical Cognitive-Discourse Analysis of the Rohingya Crisis in the Press
This article attempts to study the way the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar (Burma) is represented or framed in the press. The researcher selects four...
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Background to the Rohingya Crisis
This chapter sets out the facts and history leading up to the RohingyaRohingya crisis, based on UN reports and recommendations. We begin with the...
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Economic Sanctions as an Instrument of Foreign Investment Control
Treating economic sanctions as an instrument of investment control is somewhat novel. Even if investment control has not been traditionally the...
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Buddhist Cosmological Narratives and Hybrid Statehood in Sri Lanka and Myanmar
The rise of Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar after independence certainly caused major troubles in the post-colonial state-building...
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Myanmar
This chapter discusses conflict and security issues in the state of Myanmar. Myanmar is a state with a history of colonisation, conflict, coups,...
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Due Diligence and Mineral Supply Chain Mechanisms
This chapter critically examines the evolution of due diligence instruments applicable to mineral supply chains. It begins by focusing on soft-law...
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Statelessness in the ASEAN Member States
Importantly forming the background of the analyses of the legal safeguards against statelessness at birth in Chaps. 5 and 6, Chap. 4 delves into the...
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Democracy, Constitutionalism, Modernity, Globalisation
This essay is a contribution to a symposium on Madhav Khosla’s important book, India’s Founding Moment. It uses the book to reflect on the relevance...
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Trade Control and WTO Law: Examining the Adequacy of the GATT Exception
Individual states increasingly rely upon economic sanctions and sanctions with extraterritorial effects to achieve their foreign policy goals....
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The 2014 Enabling Law of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission: A Critical Assessment Against and the UN Paris Principles
In March 2014 the Myanmar Hluttaw, or Parliament, enacted the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Law, which provided a statutory basis for a...
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Assessment of Domestic Legal Frameworks for Nationality of ASEAN Member States
Chapter 5 contains an analysis of the nationality laws and to some degree, relevant practices in the area of nationality of the ten Member States of...
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Rohingya Boat Refugees at Bay of Bengal and Obligations of the South East Asian States Under Soft Law
The 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol are the only binding international instruments under which the parties of the instruments agree to...
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A Space for Human Rights Goals in WTO and Investment Law
This chapter examines the complex interplay between human rights-oriented policies to combat the impacts of mineral exploitation, and the legal...
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From Nuremberg to Climate Change: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect
This chapter unpacks the meaning and implications of the corporate ‘responsibility to respect’ as conceptualized in the UN Guiding Principles on...
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Beyond Friend and Enemy: The Stranger as a Political Category in Colonial Modernity
This piece is a book comment on Jon Wilson’s “The Domination of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern India 1780–1835.” Center-staging early...
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Societies of Buddhist Law
This is a chapter about societies in Southeast Asia where law rests on inherited tribal customs and Buddhist understanding of morals, values, the...
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Case: Non-compliance at Fokker Services
From late 2005 through to late 2010, Fokker Services BV (FSBV) failed to comply with the economic sanctions the United States (US) Government had...
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Conclusion
The International Criminal Court (ICC) would resolve the issue of geographic equity by dealing with the RohingyaRohingya crisis. On the other hand,...
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An alternative perspective for acquisitions of amber from Myanmar including recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Recent publications have been actively recommending strong embargos on Burmese amber trade and research. Although the motivation of these actions...
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From solidarity to resistance: host communities’ evolving response to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Bangladesh sets an admirable example of solidarity with the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar by hosting more than a million Rohingyas despite its...
