 IA FORUM ARTICLES |
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| Israel and Sri Lanka: a media analysis of war crimes allegations |
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| Report by Just Journalism, a UK-based research organization focused on how Israel and Middle East issues are reported in the UK media. (June 2009) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Professor Philippe Sands QC |
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| IA-Forum speaks with Professor Philippe Sands QC about international law issues and his latest book, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (Viking). By Dimitri Neos and Anna Larnefeldt. (IA-Forum, 1/20/2006) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Prof. Dorothee Heisenberg |
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| Prof. Dorothy Heisenberg (John Hopkins University) discusses the privacy policy Safe Harbor. (IA-Forum, 9/17/2004) |
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| Justice Department Memo Regarding Standards of Conduct for Interrogation |
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| The United States Justice Department (Office of Legal Council) memo on the standards of conduct for interrogation under the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (by Jay S. Bubby, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, 08/01/2002) |
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| Colin L. Powell memo to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs |
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| Draft Decision Memorandum for the President on the Applicability of the Geneva Convention to the Conflict in Afghanistan. (by Colin L. Powell, 01/26/2002) |
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| White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales memo to the President |
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| Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention of Prisoners of War to the Conflict With Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. (by Alberto R. Gonzales, 1/25/2002) |
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| EDITORIALS |
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| Muddy Diplomacy |
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| Analyzes an almost-forgotten maritime dispute between Peru and Chile that is being brough to the International Court in The Hague. By Alan Hootnick. (09/23/2007) |
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| Reaction to the Chinese National People’s Congress recently passed bill on personal property rights. By Richard Neil Lorenc. (03/17/2007) |
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| The Case That Was |
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| Author asks who should be held accountable after Milosevic's death; does his passing excuse him for the atrocities he committed against the citizens of Yugoslavia? By Tonya Jones. (IA-Forum, 3/13/2006) |
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| Questionable Case Against David Irving’s Sentence |
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| Author discusses trial of controversial author David Irving and argues against an excessive sentence. By David A. Hollingsworth. (IA-Forum, 3/2/2006) |
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| With the Lisbon Treaty now in effect, the European Union has more power to implement foreign policy decisions -- on paper, at least. The reformed EU's effectiveness will ultimately depend on whether its member states focus on continued integration rather than on retaining their national perspectives. By Anthony Luzzatto Gardner and Stuart E. Eizenstat. (Foreign Affairs - Mar/Apr 2010) |
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| It is extraordinarily likely that the leaders meeting in Copenhagen will agree to something and congratulate themselves for it. For it to be meaningful, there are some challenges an agreement would have to overcome. By Philip I. Levy. (ForeignPolicy.com/AEI, 12/09/2009) |
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| The recent revelations from East Anglia show that what's really at work is a very large clique of scientists is attempting to excommunicate perceived heretics for reasons that have more to do with psychology and sociology than physics or climatology. By Jonah Goldberg. (USA Today, 12/01/2009) |
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| The assumption that nuclear weapons are indispensable to keeping the peace is crumbling, says UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. He presents five-point plan to achieve his goal. (Project Syndicate, 08/08/2009) |
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| The Obama administration has an opportunity to help define new roles for the United States in this changing Asia. But to sustain its position in the region, Washington will need to move beyond its traditional “hub and spokes” approach to Asia—with the United States as the hub, bilateral alliances as the spokes, and multilateral institutions largely at the margins of U.S. policy. Otherwise, the Uni |
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| The author examines different approaches countries view as necessary towards handling Iran and North Korea. By Mark Landler (Ny Times, 9/21/2009) |
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| Formation of US trade barriers with India and China to curb energy-intensive production in in areas with weak emissions controls may do more economic harm than environmental good. by Sallie James (Cato Institute 9/9/09) |
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| Anderson and Gifford identify ‘the law of war’ as a system of norms through which the destructive aspects of conflict are mitigated. Their argument relies on the realist assumption of an anarchic system and F. A. Hayak’s claim that law can exist as order not of governmental design. By Gary Anderson and Adam Gifford. (Cato Institute 3/8/2004) |
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| This article appeals to the Honduran Constitution, the Democratic Charter, and the UN Commission on Human Rights in order to demonstrate that the removal of President Manuel Zelaya was a “coup… [and] an assault on constitutional order”. By Doug Cassel. (The American Society of International Law, 7/29/2009) |
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| In this brief article Feulner examines the extent to which Sotomayor has expressed her views on the relevance of international law when examining the Constitution. He advocates criticism of her openness to this method for Constitutional interpretation. By Edwin J. Feulner. (The Heritage Foundation, 7/14/2009) |
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| Marco Basile explains the awkward legal dilemma that lays behind the ICC order for arrest of President Bashir of Sudan. He demonstrates in what ways this legal snafu may curtail the effectiveness of international law now and in the future. (The Century Foundation, 7/9/2009) |
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| This article claims that progress in the Arab-Israeli peace process will come only when Obama is willing to identify Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law. By Flynt Leverett. (New America Foundation, 7/1/2009) |
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| Spector uses the conflict over sovereignty in the western Sahara as a test-case to explain his view that self-determination law is inadequate and must be reformed to take into account on-the-ground realities. He argues that revitalization of this sector of international law has the potential to strengthen the entire cannon. By Samuel Spector. (Middle East Forum, Summer 2009) |
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| Denouncing the I.C.C. just because it has charged an African head of state will undermine justice. By Kofi Annan (International Herald Tribune, 06/29/2009) |
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| Schulz’s offers an unusual view of American resistance to the penetration of international law into American jurisprudence and argues that amelioration of this fear would provide a needed boost to domestic social justice reform. (Center for American Progress 6/17/2009) |
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| Originally Published in the Wall Street Journal, this article discusses the use of the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 in trying international human rights cases at home. By John B. Bellinger III (Council on Foreign Relations, 5/27/2009) |
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| Author Daniel Taub argues in this piece that international law is fundamentally flawed and inadequate for the modern era because it does not provide states with legal mechanisms for responding to terrorist attacks. (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 5/11/2009) |
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| Bolton describes Spanish prosecution of American Lawyers on human rights charges and urges Obama to “pronounce unequivocally that Spain should take whatever steps are necessary to stop Judge Garzón”. By John Bolton. (American Enterprise Insitute for Public Policy Research, 5/6/2009) |
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| If the underlying factors that precipitated the Gaza war are not addressed, Hamas and Israel could soon find themselves on the edge of another explosion. (International Crisis Group, 04/23/2009) |
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| Article explains that failure to prosecute war crimes could result in a tension in transatlantic relations. By Bernard Finel. (Atlantic Council, 4/22/2009) |
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| This article summarizes the 2009 Spanish attempted prosecution of Bush officials to argue that universal justice doctrine must not be used in national courts and the ICC and IJC should be strengthened. By Valerie Nichols. (Atlantic Council, 4/16/2009) |
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| Spanish judge uses Universal Justice Doctrine to challenge Bush 6 involved in detainee torture. Article speculates about Obama’s couse of action and what implications this might have on US- Spanish and US- ICC relations. By Valerie Nichols. (Atlantic Council, 4/16/2009) |
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| Food shortage, methods to combat hunger, and the idea of food as a ‘right’ provided by international law. By Sandra Polaski, Olivier de Schutter, Steven Schonberger, and Gawain Kripke.
(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 4/8/2009) |
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| This article expresses its author’s view of the March naval spat between China and the USA and US ratification of the Law of the Sea. By Erik. (Pacific Freeze, 3/25/2009) |
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| Originally published in the New York Times, this article examines the detrimental effects of the UN valuing security over justice. Cambodia provides the example. By Elizabeth Becker. (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 3/14/2009) |
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