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international law Archive
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Dan Hannan is the wrong person to write about Kosovo
Posted on 30/11/2007 | 1 CommentA blog post by my good friend Daniel Hannan proposes the partition of Kosovo as a means of avoiding war. Read it here. He makes it all sound so easy, holding a series of plebiscites to decide where to draw new lines on the map.... -
Apologising for slavery
Posted on 13/05/2006 | No CommentsStraying from the discussion about the EU institutions for a moment, my eye is caught by the report on a debate about slavery in Bristol (read it in The Independent here). The question is whether the city of Bristol should apologise for the slave trade... -
A global parliamentary assembly
Posted on 08/03/2006 | No CommentsProfessor Andrew Strauss addressed a meeting this evening on how to set up a global parliamentary assembly. He was speaking at a meeting organised by the One World Trust, so he didn’t need to spend much time on why to set up a global parliamentary... -
What is the international community?
Posted on 05/06/2005 | No CommentsFederalists are pretty suspicious of the notion of the “international community”. It is generally taken to mean gatherings of countries who get together to enact common policies that might otherwise be controversial or ineffective. However, this simple definition can hide a lot. For example, membership... -
Guantanamo Bay: a hole in the laws of physics
Posted on 31/10/2004 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming The detention camp established by the United States at Guantanamo Bay has become notorious around the world. It is used as a prison camp for prisoners captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere, holding prisoners from many different countries including the United Kingdom. A... -
After Iraq: can we build a better world?
Posted on 24/08/2003 | No CommentsBy Adrian Taylor As the Iraq war fades, some repairs need to be made to transatlantic relations. The good news is that Europeans and Americans can probably agree that: i) the world is better off without Saddam Hussein; ii) Iraq must now be helped to... -
Milosevic in court: no peace without justice
Posted on 12/01/2002 | No CommentsBy Laura Davis Slobodan Milosevic’s transfer from his Belgrade prison to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on 28 June 2001 was headline news: he would be the first head of state to stand trial, on the basis of individual criminal responsibility and... -
Justice and revenge: the lessons of 11 September
Posted on 12/12/2001 | No CommentsBy Geoffrey Robertson QC The immediate and rightful response of the United States to the atrocity of 11 September was to demand ‘justice’, although that word sounded, in many powerful mouths, like the cry of the lynch mob for summary execution, assassination squads and Osama... -
What is world federalism?
Posted on 01/06/2001 | No CommentsBy Keith Best Despite the world’s richest (USA) and the most populous (India) democracies living under a federal system, as well as it being well understood in Europe (with the German experience) “federal” has become the “f” word in Britain and has been adopted as...
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