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Bearing in mind the geostrategic ramifications of Brexit, this review offers a critical assessment of a significant new book with one primary purpose—to analyse the negotiations over the two areas of the Crown Colony of Cyprus, which, upon the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus on 16 August 1960, were retained by the United Kingdom and renamed as the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. This review explains why the book is a welcome addition to the existing academic literature. The review also provides certain pieces of constructive criticism largely centred on issues that are unexplored in the book. As such, the review seeks to place the narrow subject matter of the book into a much wider historical and legal context. For example, the review touches on the largely hushed-up geostrategic interests served by those involved in the negotiations. The review depicts the principal outcome of those negotiations as 'the camouflaged partition' of the Island of Cyprus on 16 August 1960. The review ends by suggesting that there is a causal link between the negotiations explored in the new book and the conspicuous post-Brexit role of RAF Akrotiri in supporting the UK's strategy towards Russia and Ukraine. Acknowledgment: Sovereign Base Areas Administration website, as archived on 3 January 2018 by the UK Government Web Archive, National Archives of the UK, Kew Gardens, Surrey, (accessed 19 June 2021). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkey. Its thesis is that its construction marks a turning point in the history, character, dynamics and risk profile of both Turkey and the Greater Middle East. The construction of the Plant reflects a number of emerging phenomena with unmistakable geopolitical implications. These encompass the nuclearization of Turkey, the nuclearization of the Greater Middle East and what appears to be an increasingly intimate Russo-Turkish bilateral relationship at odds with Turkey's membership of NATO. Against this background, the article pinpoints several causes for concern. Among these is the detachment of Turkey from a string of international conventions that seek to promote nuclear safety or to protect the sea, the wider environment, workers or other people. Other causes for concern include the absence in Turkey of a deep-rooted culture steeped in transparency, press freedom, whistleblowing and other potential facilitators of nuclear safety. The article ends with five sets of recommendations directed towards the Government of Turkey plus the Governments and inhabitants of other states in the Greater Middle East and the EU, two of whose member states, the Republic of Cyprus and Greece, are situated in relatively close proximity to the Plant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article outlines the history of international humanitarian law vis-à-vis conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) from the promulgation of the Lieber Code in 1863 until the adoption in 2019 of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2467. This article considers how a survivorcentered approach to CRSV has emerged, particularly since 2008. The authors identify 3 significant clinical, ethical, and legal lessons: (1) international humanitarian law, as articulated in the Geneva Conventions and other legal instruments, requires clinicians to adopt a holistic approach to care; (2) during or after any conflict in which CRSV has allegedly been inflicted, a clinician may be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court; and (3) infliction of rape in any conflict may equate to commission of torture and possibly genocide, a reality which obliges every clinician to appreciate that a patient may simultaneously be a victim of human rights violations and of crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the significance of overseas military bases of the U.S. in light of its changed national security strategy which has pre-emptive military strikes at its core. As stated, following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the country, then-president George W. Bush announced the war against terrorist with an aim to stop other countries from attacking the U.S. first. A year later, the U.S. government published the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America," (NSS 2002) in which Bush declared that to prevent the hostile acts by adversaries, the country will act pre-emptively. Reportedly, U.S. has various overseas military bases in regions including Latin America, Europe, Persian Gulf and South-East Asia.