ABSTRACT The European Union presents to the world a coherent normative architecture: a rules-based international order grounded in international humanitarian law, binding sanctions regimes against state aggressors, and a principled arms export control framework enshrined in EU Common Position 2008/944/CFSP and enforced through twenty successive Russia sanctions packages since February 24, 2022. This architecture is, … Leggi tutto The Architecture of European Arms Hypocrisy: Sanctions Circumvention, Dual-Use Trade Diversion, End-User Certificate Fraud – the Military-Industrial-Financial Complex Sustaining the Russian War Machine Through Central Asian Transshipment Corridors, Italian Regulatory Capture and Selective EU Embargo Enforcement