who plan to study international law and international security in the mater’s program, GSICS, Kobe University, in 2026-2028 or 2027-2029.
List of possible (not in any way exhaustive, not even best) topics to develop research proposals in international law and international security.
Landmine Convention (Ottawa Convention)
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/assessing-ottawa-anti-personnel-mine-convention-withdrawals/
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/ukraine-future-ottawa-convention/
(my very old work) https://da.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/da/kernel/0100497683/0100497683.pdf/
UXO (unexploded ordnance) or explosive remnants of war (ERW), more generally
https://www.icrc.org/en/law-and-policy/explosive-remnants-war (my very old work on the Cluster Munitions Convention) https://brill.com/view/journals/ihls/3/2/article-p322_5.xml
Legal review of weapons in light of ****Art. 36, Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions ”In the study, development, acquisition or adoption of a new weapon, means or method of warfare, a High Contracting Party is under an obligation to determine whether its employment would, in some or all circumstances, be prohibited by this Protocol or by any other rule of international law applicable to the High Contracting Party.” ****https://apils.org/legal-review/
UN economic sanctions, autonomous economic sanctions
e.g., in relation to the on-going autonomous sanctions against Russia
(my works, open access) https://brill.com/view/journals/iclr/26/1-2/article-p69_4.xml
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429052989-15/russia-mika-hayashi
e.g. or in relation to other recent instances of economic sanctions and related issues https://yjil.yale.edu/posts/2023-06-21-the-opacity-of-economic-coercion
Nuclear weapons and international law, NPT, TPNW, etc.
https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004507999/BP000032.xml
(my works)
https://da.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/da/kernel/0100482480/0100482480.pdf