International Affairs Forum

Fri. April 10, 2020

Social Media: Humanitarian/Social

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No more appeasement for North Korea

Call for the democratic countries of the world to take a common position regarding North Korea: they must not offer concessions to a totalitarian dictator. By Vaclav Havel. (Christian Science Monitor... Read More...

The Hispanic Challenge

The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not ... Read More...

Rumsfeld's actions speak louder

Offers suggestions to prevent another Abu Ghraib. By Kerry Kennedy Cuomo and Michael Posner. (Boston Globe, 5/15/2004) Read More...

Covering up the coverup

Alan Dershowitz writes that the roots of the Abu Ghraib issue lies in the White House. (Boston Globe, 5/15/2004) Read More...

Like the Wehrmacht, we've descended into barbarity

Argues that the treatment of Iraqi prisoners is a consequence of coalition policy. By Richard Overy. (Guardian, 5/10/2004. Read More...

Partnership, Under Construction

In the first public criticism by the Bush administration of Russia, Secretary of State Powell diplomatically criticizes a resurgence of authoritarianism under Putin, including the weakening of the leg... Read More...

Renewing the Atlantic Partnership

Authors argues that in order to revitalize the Atlantic alliance, Europe and America must forge new "rules of the road" governing the use of force, adapt NATO to meet today's threats coming from outsi... Read More...

Torture At Abu Ghraib

American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go? By Seymour M. Hersh. (New Yorker, 4/30/2004) Read More...

Huntington's logic fundamentally flawed

Samuel Huntington, a noted American thinker, believes the United States will not be able to assimilate the huge mass of Hispanic immigrants who settle daily there. Carlos Alberto Montaner explains why... Read More...

Land of the Free?

To win the war of ideas in the world, America needs to unclog its arteries and facilitate the entry of smart, bright people who want to come and educate themselves in this country. by Steven C. Clemon... Read More...

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The Politics of AIDS: Engaging Conservative Activists

American evangelicals have put the fight against AIDS on Washington's map, even while clashing with other activists over strategy. Now all must unite behind a comprehensive approach stressing effectiv... Read More...

A Duty to Prevent

The international community has a duty to prevent security disasters as well as humanitarian ones -- even at the price of violating sovereignty. By Lee Feinstein and Anne-Marie Slaughter. (Foreign Af... Read More...

An empty sort of freedom

Saddam was no defender of women, but they have faced new miseries and more violence since he fell... (Guardian, 3/8/2004) Read More...

A new tone on rights in China?

Merle Goldman sees that the pending constitutional amendment, while flawed, is a positive step towards greater human rights in China. (Boston Globe, 3/8/2004) Read More...

Denying Haiti's Refugees

Supports view that U.S. should provide protection to Haitian asylum-seekers in the same way the United States did a few years back for refugees from Kosovo. By Bill Frelick. (Washington Post, 3/6/2004... Read More...

The New American Century

New Imperialism is already upon us. It's a remodeled, streamlined version of what we once knew. For the first time in history, a single empire with an arsenal of weapons that could obliterate the worl... Read More...

Jobs Americans Won't Do

Bush has defended illegal immigration amnesty on the grouns that foreign workers are needed to perform work Americans refuse to do, but is this a valid point to make? By Mark Krikorian. (Center for Im... Read More...

U.N. Decries Cuba Over Dissident Arrests

U.N. Human Rights Comission classifies the Cuban government's imprisonment of 75 dissidents as an "unprecedented wave of repression." By Naomi Koppel. (Cubanet, 02/17/2004) Read More...

Exodus within Borders: The Uprooted who Never Left Home

Millions flee persecution and war within their borders. The international community should be ready to act when states fail to protect their own. By Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng. (Foreign Affair... Read More...

Out-of-Control Immigration

High immigration in the U.S. is creating imbalances in education, income distribution, employment, and welfare demands. An economic slump will mean crisis. Congress and the White House need to cut bac... Read More...

Roma Rights, Roma Wrongs

Enforcement of EU human rights law and a growth in political consciousness may finally end the discrimination that the Roma have suffered for centuries. But already the backlash has begun. By James A.... Read More...

Terrorism and Restrictionism: Their Impact on European Immigration Policies

A talk by Patrick Weil with comments by Mark Krikorian (Nixon Center, 5/8/2003) Read More...

Rwanda in Retrospect

Given the genocide in Rwanda's terrifying pace, even a major mission by the West could have saved only a fraction of the ultimate victims. Herewith a reassessment of the limits of intervention. By Ala... Read More...

EU membership could help stabilize Turkey

By Sam Wilkin and Marvin Zonis (Boston Globe, 11/23/2003) Read More...

America Slams the Door (On Its Foot): Washington's Destructive New Visa Policies

Harsh new restrictions on Muslim visitors have told potential friends that the United States no longer wants them. Goodwill is being squandered; Americans will pay. By John N. Paden and Peter W. Singe... Read More...

Foreign Assistance in an Aging World

Chronic ailments such as diabetes and heart disease will become far more widespread, placing great strain on health care budgets in developing countries. The focus of aid should change accordingly. By... Read More...

How U.N. Conventions On Women's and Children's Rights Undermine Family, Religion, and Sovereignty

(Heritage Foundation, 2/5/2001) Read More...

Humanitarian Aid Is Not a Military Business

In Iraq, the US use of humanitarian aid as a political asset threatens the efficiency and equity of aid operations. (Belfer Center, 4/15/2003) Read More...

Rescuing the Refugees

The world's focus in Afghanistan is shifting from waging war to picking up the pieces and helping the long-suffering Afghan people. But can action follow words? By Arthur C. Helton(Foreign Affairs, 3/... Read More...

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