John Hickman

Why Is the Post-WW2 Non-Annexation Norm So Weak?

cc Patrick Gruban, modified, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UN_General_Assembly_hall.jpg

The answer may lie the Latin truism: quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. Or “What’s permissible for Jupiter is not permissible for an ox.”

Why a 1955 Peace Treaty Bans Landlocked Austria from Deploying Submarines

Description: A photograph of the German WWI U-boat UB 14 on the surface of the Black Sea. The submarine's crew is gathered around the tower. Source: Rainer Kolbicz (Ed.), WWI U-boats: UB 14, uboat.net, www.uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB+14, cc SMU Central University, modified, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_U-boat_UB_14_with_its_crew.jpg

Tracing the historical origins of one particularly bizarre postwar restriction.

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