In a new podcast from Parallax Views, I discuss the situation in Karabakh right now. Not for the first time, great power rivalries and human rights hypocrisy have led to the destruction of a vuln...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2023/09/30/on-human-rights-hypocrisies/
In COMPACT Magazine today, I write about the ethnic cleansing of Armenian Christians now underway in Karabakh. Largely, what’s happening is the result of great powers looking the other way. Her...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2023/09/27/ethnic-cleansing-and-the-rule-of-law/
At First Things today, I have an essay on Azerbaijan’s blockade of Armenian Christians in the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh this Advent. Things look grim, but the Armenians of Karabakh vo...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2022/12/20/ethnic-cleaning-threatened-in-the-south-caucasus/
From Cambridge University Press, here is a new book on the often forgotten contribution of Catholic thought to human rights law: Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights, by scholar Leonard Fran...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2022/12/01/catholicism-and-human-rights/
Last Friday, I sat down (virtually) with Geoff Shullenberger to record an episode of “Compact Conversations,” Compact Magazine’s podcast series. Geoff and I discussed my recent essay in Com...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2022/09/26/podcast-on-the-situation-in-armenia/
Several years ago, I wrote an essay on the concept of human dignity in different legal systems, including the Islamic. Most legal systems honor human dignity, but the concept has different meanin...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2022/09/22/a-new-book-on-human-rights-and-islamic-states/
Last week, an aspiring democracy–Armenia–was invaded by an authoritarian neighbor–Azerbaijan. The invasion threatens to reduce Armenia by half and start a new round of ethnic cleansing in t...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2022/09/19/why-armenia-stands-alone/
For those who are interested, at the Law & Liberty site today, I have an essay on the Karabakh War, now one month old. I argue that the war represents a civilizational clash between democracy and...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2020/10/28/movsesian-on-the-karabakh-crisis/
For those who are interested, the St. John’s University Institute for International Communication has posted a video of last week’s panel, “The Crisis in the Caucasus,” on the war in Kara...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2020/10/27/video-of-last-weeks-panel-on-the-caucasus/
A programming note: this coming Wednesday (October 21), I will participate in a panel here at St. John’s University on the war in Karabakh, “The Crisis in the Caucasus.” Other panelists inc...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2020/10/18/panel-on-the-crisis-in-the-caucasus/