Professor Marko MilanovicInternational Law: Revisiting Coercion as an Element of Prohibited Intervention in International Law.
Wednesday 22 February, 17:00, G11, Henley Business School
In his inaugural lecture, Professor Milanovic will argue that coercion can be understood in two different ways or models.
First, coercion as extortion, as a threat to engage or continue engaging in some activity (which itself may be lawful or unlawful) in order to extract some kind of concession from the victim state – in other words, an act targeting the victim state’s will or decision-making calculus.
Second, coercion can be understood as the actual deprivation of the victim state’s ability to make its sovereign choices, which may be done even through acts like cyber operations that the victim state may be unaware of. Professor Milanovic will argue that many of the difficulties surrounding the notion of coercion arise as consequence of failing to distinguish between these two different models.
Professor Milanovic is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Reading and Director of Global Law at Reading.