Iryna Bogdanova
About/Bio
Dr Iryna Bogdanova is a postdoctoral researcher at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Berne. In 2020, Iryna was awarded a PhD degree (Summa cum Laude) by the Faculty of Law of the University of Berne. Her thesis explored the legality of unilateral economic sanctions, i.e. those imposed by individual states without authorization of the United Nations Security Council, under international law; it came out as a book in July 2022. Iryna’s research interests include international trade law and policy, collective and unilateral economic sanctions, regulation of emerging technologies and the impact of disruptive technologies on international economic law.
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Politicization of the 5G rollout: Litigation way for Huawei?
February 10, 2023
Iryna Bogdanova
The Chinese government’s ambition to become the global leader in new technologies, manifested in state-led industrial policies such as Made in China 2025, has prompted a strong response. For example, the United States significantly tightened its export control regulations and expanded grounds for foreign direct investment screening. In turn,…
Unilateral Economic Sanctions to Deter and Punish Cyber-Attacks: Are They Here to Stay?
In June 2021 during the Biden-Putin summit, President Biden stated that critical infrastructure should be “off-limits” to cyber-attacks and handed over a list of 16 areas of critical infrastructure that under no circumstance should be targeted by cyber-attacks. This took place after the SolarWinds cyber-attack that was described by SolarWinds Vice-President as “your worst nightmare”.
The WTO Panel Ruling on the National Security Exception: Has the Panel ‘Cut’ the Baby in Half?
April 12, 2019
Iryna Bogdanova
Recently, media attention has been captured by the unravelling trade war between the declining western hegemon and the rising eastern mega-power with other discussions, such as the reform of the WTO dispute settlement system, reflecting the points of the growing divergence between the two. Against this backdrop, the Russia – Traffic in Transit…
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The WTO Panel Ruling on the National Security Exception: Has the Panel ‘Cut’ the Baby in Half?
April 12, 2019
Iryna Bogdanova
Recently, media attention has been captured by the unravelling trade war between the declining western hegemon and the rising eastern mega-power with other discussions, such as the reform of the WTO dispute settlement system, reflecting the points of the growing divergence between the two. Against this backdrop, the Russia – Traffic in Transit…
Unilateral Economic Sanctions to Deter and Punish Cyber-Attacks: Are They Here to Stay?
In June 2021 during the Biden-Putin summit, President Biden stated that critical infrastructure should be “off-limits” to cyber-attacks and handed over a list of 16 areas of critical infrastructure that under no circumstance should be targeted by cyber-attacks. This took place after the SolarWinds cyber-attack that was described by SolarWinds Vice-President as “your worst nightmare”.
WTO Dispute on the US Human Rights Sanctions is Looming on the Horizon
January 31, 2019
Iryna Bogdanova
At the turn of the year, Venezuela initiated a WTO dispute with the United States. In a nutshell, Venezuela questions WTO-consistency of a number of coercive trade-restrictive measures (economic sanctions) imposed by the United States. Some of those restrictions were allegedly imposed on the human rights grounds. US sanctions against Venezuela The…