The decision to use chemical weapons, namely poisonous gases, by the various parties to the conflict during the First World War represented one of the most dangerous developments in human history. Ever since the emergence of such weapons as a new element of warfare, voices have called for the prohibition of the use of such weaponry precisely because of their capacity to inflict indiscriminate...

Although there is no universally accepted definition of international terrorism, the international community recognizes terrorism as a foreign and domestic threat. The attacks of September 11th 2001 in the United States have dramatically re-energized the international focus on the issue of terrorism and underlined the urgency for collective efforts to fight terror worldwide on the basis of...

The Gulf region has undergone an interval dispute almost every decade. The Iran-Iraq War launched in September 1980, radically transformed the Gulf region, eventually resulting in the 1991 Gulf War, and setting events in motion that would lead to the Third Gulf War in 2003.  

The Iran-Iraq conflict erupted due to a variety of factors.  The Iran-Iraq border culminates in the narrow...