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April 25, 2008
Essential Documents
Speech
See more in United States, International Law
April 8, 2008
| Author: | John F. Murphy |
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Must Read
The Suffolk Transnational Law Review examines the Medellin decision and its implications for the United States and the rule of law in international affairs.
See more in United States, International Law, Rule of Law, Treaties
April 4, 2008
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael Gerson looks at what the rule of law can mean to a mother in Africa.
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa
March 25, 2008
Essential Documents
Decision
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March 20, 2008
| Speakers: | John Norton Moore, Director, School Of Law, Center for National Security Law, University Of Virginia James Watkins, Co-Chair, Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, Former Chief of Naval Operations, 1982-1986, Former U.S. Secretary Of Energy, 1989-1993 |
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| Presider: | Scott G. Borgerson, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
With the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea awaiting consideration by the full Senate, speakers address the issues surrounding the treaty and examine the coalitions that have moved it forward after more than 25 years.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics
March 1, 2008
Must Read
This conference report addresses how to devise useful and pragmatic strategies on what steps the United States can do to help implement a judicial doctrine on war crimes called Responsibility to Protect, or R2P.
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Updated: January 24, 2008
Backgrounder
Despite losing an important court decision, the White House has continued to use military tribunals to try terrorist suspects and to fight the Supreme Court’s claim to jurisdiction over the matter.
See more in United States, Terrorism and the Law
December 5, 2007
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that, “by one estimate, 27,000 women and girls were raped in eastern Congo in 2006. The hospital has seen victims as young as 3.”
See more in Democratic Rep. of Congo, Rule of Law
Updated: November 26, 2007
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Daily Analysis
The Bush administration is convening a conference in Annapolis to try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Skeptics, however, abound.
See more in Israel, Palestinian Authority, International Crime, Peacekeeping
November 21, 2007
Podcast
Podcast: A veteran reporter discusses a war crimes tribunal trying members of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime.
See more in Southeast Asia, International Law
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Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Three-Front War (4/30): Michael Gerson argues that a decent outcome in Iraq would be considerably devalued if counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan stall, in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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