We kindly invite you to a lecture by our researcher Dr. Zoran Kanduč entitled “Imperialist Sanctions, the Law of the Jungle, and Quasi-Mafia Governance of International Relations.” The lecture will take place as part of the Tuesday Meetings series on Monday, 26 January 2026, at 1:00 p.m., in the Library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.

The lecture will begin with a discussion of the draconian—indeed outright horrifying, yet at the same time highly revealing—penalty imposed last December on Colonel Jacques Baud of the Swiss Army (as well as on a number of other individuals before him, including a German citizen of Turkish origin).

This concerns an extremely harsh sanction imposed by the European Union in a wholly arbitrary manner, beyond the usual safeguards that are supposed to be guaranteed by the rule of law, and, moreover, against a person who has committed no illegal or unlawful act whatsoever.

The lecture will then turn to the punitive imperialist policies directed at the Russian Federation, Iran, and Venezuela, which are a key reason why we are entering a year that may prove even more dangerous for world peace than the previous one—despite the fact that the White House is occupied by a president who proclaims himself a peacemaker, while simultaneously stressing that he disregards international law, relying instead on his own conscience, which appears to be highly fickle and belligerent.

 

Contact person: Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič

Audio or video recording is not permitted at the event without the explicit permission of the organizer.

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