Nicholas Tsagourias
Biographic Data
| ID | 5699909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Tsagourias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsagourias |
| SIGNATURE | TSAGOURIAS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1701-2572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Re-Defining Statehood in the Face of Rising Sea Levels
Climate projections indicate that, within the next century, nine Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can be expected to disappear due to rising sea levels. Under traditional understandings of Statehood, a State cannot exist without defined territory. Rising sea levels therefore pose an existential threat to the SIDS set to disappear by 2100. This chapter considers the role and place of territory in the construction of Statehood, its relation to…
Digitalization and its Systemic Impact on the Use of Force Regime
This article explores the systemic impact of digitalization on the use of force regime. It identifies two types of impact: (i) legal uncertainty; and (ii) the replacement of international law. The article discusses legal uncertainty in relation to the content of the rules on the use of force and their application to digital uses of force as well as in relation to the facts that underpin digital uses of force. It then goes on to discuss the replac…
Hacking international organizations
This article examines the extent to which international law protects international organizations (IOs) from hacking operations committed by States. First, it analyzes whether hacking operations undertaken by member States and host States breach the privileges and immunities granted to IOs by their constitutive treaties, headquarters agreements, and conventions on privileges and immunities concerning the inviolability of their premises, property, …
Cyber Attribution
Considering the role of attribution in the law of state responsibility, this article examines the technical and international law methodologies and determinants used when attributing malicious cyber activities falling below the use-of-force threshold to a state, and identifies the challenges that arise which lead to responsibility gaps. The article goes on to discuss a number of proposals that aim to improve the effectiveness of the attribution p…
The Slow Process of Normativizing Cyberspace
In their article, Dan Efrony and Yuval Shany claim that post-Tallinn Manual practice demonstrates that states entertain doubts about the applicability to cyberspace of the rules contained in the Tallinn Manuals. According to the authors, post-Tallinn practice reveals that states treat the application of international law to cyber operations as optional; operate in parallel—legal and nonlegal—tracks of conduct; and engage in gradated enforcement. …
Self-Defence against Non-state Actors
This article examines the law of self-defence as applied to non-state attacks in light of the coalition air strikes against ISIL in Syria. It critiques the two current interpretations of the law of self-defence – one based on attribution and the other on the ‘unable or unwilling’ test – for failing to address adequately the security threat posed by non-state actors or for not addressing convincingly the legal issues arising from the fact that the…
War power, police power
In this book, Mark Neocleous makes the connection between war power, police power and liberalism. It is based on the premise that the differences between war and peace (represented by police power)
Nicolas Politis' Initiatives to Outlaw War and Define Aggression, and the Narrative of Progress in International Law
This article focuses on Nicholas Politis’ efforts to outlaw war and define aggression, and places them within the progress narrative of the interwar international law discourse. This narrative is defined by its rejection of sovereignty; its belief in codification; and the recognition of the individual as a subject of international law. Politis’ projects envisage international law as a means towards an ecumenical world order built around individua…
Security Council Legislation, Article 2(7) of the UN Charter, and the Principle of Subsidiarity
This article considers the relationship between the United Nations and its member states in view of the Security Council's assertion of legislative powers. It claims that the exponential growth in UN powers at the expense of the powers of its member states cannot be arrested by legal means, because of the nature of the UN system and the absence of legally enforceable criteria and compulsory dispute-settlement mechanisms. For this reason, it propo…
Cosmopolitanism in Context
Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral concern for all survive the marriage between cosmopolitanism and institutional power? What are the effects of such bureaucratisation of cosmopolitan ideals? This volume examines the strained relationship between cosmopolitanism as a moral standard and the…
Decisions of International Tribunals
In its judgment of 3 February 2003, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared the application submitted by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) for revision of its 1996 judgment concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, inadmissible. 1 The Court found that the request for revision was not based on the ‘discovery’ of a ‘fact’ and, therefore, one of the conditions of Article …
Humanitarian Intervention After Kosovo and Legal Discourse
NATO's operation in Kosovo provoked diverse legal propositions. The operation was hailed as a humanitarian action stemming from a sense of human solidarity for the victims of the atrocities. On the other hand, it was vilified as a flagrant violation of fundamental principles of international law such as that of state sovereignty and non-intervention. Consequently, legal discourse is moulded by these antithetical ideological forces which epitomise…
Security Council Legislation, Article 2(7) of the UN Charter, and the Principle of Subsidiarity
This article considers the relationship between the United Nations and its member states in view of the Security Council's assertion of legislative powers. It claims that the exponential growth in UN powers at the expense of the powers of its member states cannot be arrested by legal means, because of the nature of the UN system and the absence of legally enforceable criteria and compulsory dispute-settlement mechanisms. For this reason, it propo…
Nicolas Politis' Initiatives to Outlaw War and Define Aggression, and the Narrative of Progress in International Law
This article focuses on Nicholas Politis’ efforts to outlaw war and define aggression, and places them within the progress narrative of the interwar international law discourse. This narrative is defined by its rejection of sovereignty; its belief in codification; and the recognition of the individual as a subject of international law. Politis’ projects envisage international law as a means towards an ecumenical world order built around individua…
Cyber Attribution
Considering the role of attribution in the law of state responsibility, this article examines the technical and international law methodologies and determinants used when attributing malicious cyber activities falling below the use-of-force threshold to a state, and identifies the challenges that arise which lead to responsibility gaps. The article goes on to discuss a number of proposals that aim to improve the effectiveness of the attribution p…
Self-Defence against Non-state Actors
This article examines the law of self-defence as applied to non-state attacks in light of the coalition air strikes against ISIL in Syria. It critiques the two current interpretations of the law of self-defence – one based on attribution and the other on the ‘unable or unwilling’ test – for failing to address adequately the security threat posed by non-state actors or for not addressing convincingly the legal issues arising from the fact that the…
Decisions of International Tribunals
In its judgment of 3 February 2003, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared the application submitted by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) for revision of its 1996 judgment concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, inadmissible. 1 The Court found that the request for revision was not based on the ‘discovery’ of a ‘fact’ and, therefore, one of the conditions of Article …
Humanitarian Intervention After Kosovo and Legal Discourse
NATO's operation in Kosovo provoked diverse legal propositions. The operation was hailed as a humanitarian action stemming from a sense of human solidarity for the victims of the atrocities. On the other hand, it was vilified as a flagrant violation of fundamental principles of international law such as that of state sovereignty and non-intervention. Consequently, legal discourse is moulded by these antithetical ideological forces which epitomise…
Decisions of International Tribunals
In its judgment of 3 February 2003, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared the application submitted by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) for revision of its 1996 judgment concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, inadmissible. 1 The Court found that the request for revision was not based on the ‘discovery’ of a ‘fact’ and, therefore, one of the conditions of Article …
Cosmopolitanism in Context
Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral concern for all survive the marriage between cosmopolitanism and institutional power? What are the effects of such bureaucratisation of cosmopolitan ideals? This volume examines the strained relationship between cosmopolitanism as a moral standard and the…
Security Council Legislation, Article 2(7) of the UN Charter, and the Principle of Subsidiarity
This article considers the relationship between the United Nations and its member states in view of the Security Council's assertion of legislative powers. It claims that the exponential growth in UN powers at the expense of the powers of its member states cannot be arrested by legal means, because of the nature of the UN system and the absence of legally enforceable criteria and compulsory dispute-settlement mechanisms. For this reason, it propo…
Nicolas Politis' Initiatives to Outlaw War and Define Aggression, and the Narrative of Progress in International Law
This article focuses on Nicholas Politis’ efforts to outlaw war and define aggression, and places them within the progress narrative of the interwar international law discourse. This narrative is defined by its rejection of sovereignty; its belief in codification; and the recognition of the individual as a subject of international law. Politis’ projects envisage international law as a means towards an ecumenical world order built around individua…
War power, police power
In this book, Mark Neocleous makes the connection between war power, police power and liberalism. It is based on the premise that the differences between war and peace (represented by police power)
Self-Defence against Non-state Actors
This article examines the law of self-defence as applied to non-state attacks in light of the coalition air strikes against ISIL in Syria. It critiques the two current interpretations of the law of self-defence – one based on attribution and the other on the ‘unable or unwilling’ test – for failing to address adequately the security threat posed by non-state actors or for not addressing convincingly the legal issues arising from the fact that the…
The Slow Process of Normativizing Cyberspace
In their article, Dan Efrony and Yuval Shany claim that post-Tallinn Manual practice demonstrates that states entertain doubts about the applicability to cyberspace of the rules contained in the Tallinn Manuals. According to the authors, post-Tallinn practice reveals that states treat the application of international law to cyber operations as optional; operate in parallel—legal and nonlegal—tracks of conduct; and engage in gradated enforcement. …
Cyber Attribution
Considering the role of attribution in the law of state responsibility, this article examines the technical and international law methodologies and determinants used when attributing malicious cyber activities falling below the use-of-force threshold to a state, and identifies the challenges that arise which lead to responsibility gaps. The article goes on to discuss a number of proposals that aim to improve the effectiveness of the attribution p…
Hacking international organizations
This article examines the extent to which international law protects international organizations (IOs) from hacking operations committed by States. First, it analyzes whether hacking operations undertaken by member States and host States breach the privileges and immunities granted to IOs by their constitutive treaties, headquarters agreements, and conventions on privileges and immunities concerning the inviolability of their premises, property, …
Digitalization and its Systemic Impact on the Use of Force Regime
This article explores the systemic impact of digitalization on the use of force regime. It identifies two types of impact: (i) legal uncertainty; and (ii) the replacement of international law. The article discusses legal uncertainty in relation to the content of the rules on the use of force and their application to digital uses of force as well as in relation to the facts that underpin digital uses of force. It then goes on to discuss the replac…
Re-Defining Statehood in the Face of Rising Sea Levels
Climate projections indicate that, within the next century, nine Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can be expected to disappear due to rising sea levels. Under traditional understandings of Statehood, a State cannot exist without defined territory. Rising sea levels therefore pose an existential threat to the SIDS set to disappear by 2100. This chapter considers the role and place of territory in the construction of Statehood, its relation to…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · International Law and Human Rights (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 works) · International law (6 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works)