Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Sovereignty

  1. From International Sanitary Conventions to Local Quarantine Practice: Camaran Island in the Late Ottoman Pilgrim Traffic Regulations
    How Camaran Island became a quarantine station for Hajj pilgrims and a contested site of Ottoman-British rivalry over maritime health governance and imperial control.
  2. Boundary marker removal on Sebatik Island may violate sovereignty
    Analysis of legal implications when boundary markers are unilaterally removed between Indonesia and Malaysia on Sebatik Island, examining violations of international law and threats to sovereignty.
  3. Positive CBDC stance linked to higher bank net interest margin
    Study shows CBDC development leads banks to widen interest margins by raising both deposit and lending rates to counter increased competition from digital currencies.
  4. AI–SAR integration improved Amazon monitoring in Brazilian Air Force analysis
    AI and SAR integration enhances Brazilian Air Force Amazonian surveillance, improving territorial governance and sovereignty through automated imagery analysis and anomaly detection.
  5. Sovereignty violations can trigger emotional multilateral responses
    Analysis of sovereignty violations as dignity denials, examining performative emotionality in multilateral responses to state-led kidnappings through Argentine and Japanese case studies.