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CONFLICT PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION |
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The responsibility to Protect |
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Author: ICISS INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON INTERVENTION AND STATE |
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01-12-2001 |
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This report is about the so-called "right of humanitarian intervention": the question of when, if ever, it is appropriate for states for take coercive - and in particular military - action, against another state for the purpose of protecting people.
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US threat to ICC |
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Author: International Amnesty |
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01-08-2003 |
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Amnesty International's report on the unlawful attempt of the Security Council to give US citizens permanent impunity from international justice by the Intrnational Criminal Court.
PDF file of legal analysis available on original url
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The Postmodern state and the world order |
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Author: Robert Cooper |
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01-01-2000 |
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Robert Cooper sets out a radical new interpretation of the shape of the world. He explains the post-Cold War world in terms of divisions between 'pre-modern' parts of the world, without fully functioning states, 'modern' nat
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Dealing With Iran |
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Author: CEIP (Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace) |
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02-11-2004 |
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Iran has been caught breaking its obligations under the NPT, and is now being investigated by the IAEA and the Security Council. If Iran gets away with acquiring nuclear weapons the Middle East would become even more dangerous
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Debating Iran's Nucleair aspirations |
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Author: Shahram Chubin |
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01-10-2003 |
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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) June 2003 report on Iran’s nuclear program has stripped the Islamic Republic of the agency’s seal of approval and elevated international concern about Tehran’s nuclear intentions.
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WMD in Iraq: Evidence and implications |
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Author: CEIP (Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace) |
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01-01-2004 |
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This Carnegie report clarifies Iraq WMD story, outlines strategy for dealing with proliferation threats.
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Iraq and World Order |
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Author: John Lloyd |
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01-02-2003 |
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What is the progressive case for intervention in Iraq? And what kind of world order should we be trying to build? Argument against a conservative retreat to national sovereignty in search of stability. Sketch of the parameters of a re-ordered in
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Iraq: what next? |
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Author: CEIP (Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace) |
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01-01-2003 |
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This analysis from January 2003 provides a concise outline of the concerns over Iraq’s missile, nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons capabilities that inspectors were investigating.
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Iraq: A new approach |
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Author: CEIP (Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace) |
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01-08-2002 |
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This proposal identifies a middle ground between the two existing approaches to Iraq: continue to do nothing, or pursue an overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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Letter PNAC to president Clinton |
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Author: Project for the New American Century various authors |
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26-01-1998 |
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Letter from the neo-conservative thinktank 'Project for the New American Century' in 1998 to former president Clinton on the in their view failing Iraq-policies. See full text.
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Rethinking NATO |
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Author: Tom Donnely |
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20-06-2003 |
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Tom Donnelly assesses the impact of the Iraq campaign on NATO from a US perspective.
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Re-Ordering the World: long-term implications 9/11 |
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Author: Mark Leonard |
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01-03-2002 |
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This collection begins with Tony Blair's call for a project to re-order the post-September 11th world. It brings together essays and proposals from statesmen thinkers in international affairs.
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The New War Against Terror |
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Author: Noam Chomsky |
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18-10-2001 |
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Transcription of talk given at the Technology and Culture Forum at IMT. See original url for full text.
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A Wounded United Nations |
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Author: Editorial New York Times |
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02-01-2004 |
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These are difficult times for the United Nations. The Bush administration's taste for unilateral action and its doctrine of preventive war pose a profound challenge to the U.N.'s founding principle of collective security.
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A Return to the UN? |
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Author: Phyllis Bennis |
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04-09-2003 |
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The recent Bush administration's draft UN resolution proposing a new role for the United Nations in Iraq is not a reflection of any concern regarding the illegality of the occupation, the lack of legitimacy of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
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Subverting the UN |
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Author: Richard Falk |
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29-10-2002 |
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As a healthy response to the Bush Administration's war policies, the number of people taking to the streets in protest is increasing with each step toward war.
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In Europe's Mirror: Perils of American Nationalism |
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Author: Anton Lieven |
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01-03-2004 |
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One way of looking at the United States today is as a European state that has avoided the catastrophes nationalism brought upon Europe in the twentieth century, and whose nationalism therefore retains some of the power, intensity and bellicosity.
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Hegemony to imperium |
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Author: Tom Barry |
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26-02-2002 |
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We are living in a "unipolar moment" declared neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer in a 1991 Foreign Affairs essay.
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Axis of Instability: Britain and America |
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Author: Andrew Tyrie |
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03-03-2001 |
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Tyrie's policy brief offers opposition to the American-British policy of pre-emption and regime change, and looks to the past for a vision of a more effective future British and Western foreign policy.
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