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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 101–112.
Published: 01 March 2001
... International Law and the Pinochet Case Susan W altz International law, so runs a common cri­ appeals are underway, but the general has tique, is imprecise, unenforceable, and ir­ been ruled fit to stand trial. He was placed relevant. Realists have long been skeptical under house arrest...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 119–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. They had also created an internal guidance structure to ensure that their supply chains were clean. Finally, the laws can pressure otherwise reluctant companies to act. After the passage of the Modern Slavery Act, for example, one international nongovernmental...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
... with defendants’ right to know the full charges against them? Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 international law justice judiciary Researchers discovered thousands of files in Chad allegedly documenting crimes committed under the Hissène Habré regime. Researchers discovered...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 46–50.
Published: 01 December 2017
... member states, which mistakenly worried that recognizing self-determination could lead to secession. In 1989, the government of Canada issued a statement arguing that the proposal was unacceptable on the grounds that “self-determination under international law can imply the absolute right to determine...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 17–24.
Published: 01 March 2003
... forces under more and more Europeans are asking if the European Union control to take military ac­ United States still believes, as they do, that tion to prevent the proliferation of weapons international laws and institutions make the of mass destruction. And all 19 NATO allies world a more...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 77–84.
Published: 01 December 2014
... fishing. The European Parliament tabled a similar protocol in 2011 over concerns that the agreement ran counter to international law. It is thought that Spanish and French lobbying swayed last year’s Euro-Parliament vote. Russia is also a major fishing trade partner. UN reports suggest the combined value...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 71–81.
Published: 01 June 2001
... clean berg proceedings. Prior to Nuremberg, the hands, and that in holding individuals re­ resort to war was not considered an unlawful sponsible for crimes against peace, it was act under general international law. Even if acting retroactively. it could be argued that as a result of inter­...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 21–30.
Published: 01 June 2001
...? If humanitarian intervention is to the main area of intellectual and political strengthen international law and norms contention, and this is where Roberts’s rather than serve as a Trojan Horse under­ definition helps us. It gets to the nub of mining them, it needs to be effective in ob­ the matter...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (3): 2–6.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Theodore C. Sorensen Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 Theodore C. Sorensen is of counsel a t the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He was commencement speaker a t American University on May 11, 2003, and the essay that follows...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 62–69.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., and a Norwe­ United Nations later characterized as “a gian—issued a 361-page ruling that is a tidal wave of political and ethnic killings,” landmark in international law.1 They found more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Ngeze, Nahimana, and Barayagwiza guilty, Hutus were murdered by the armed forces...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 57–61.
Published: 01 December 2004
... blowers protections un­ the regime’s W MD programs. But with the der international law. potential for retribution from Saddam Hussein looming over their heads, the sci­ Why Scientists Matter entists were unwilling to talk. The bill Scientific insiders have been key to alert­ sought to remedy...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 107.
Published: 01 December 2002
...: International Law and the Pinochet (XVIII: 1) Case" (XVIII: 1) Kinzer, Stephen; “Dreaming in Turkish” (XVIII:3) Woodworth, Paddy; "Why Do They Kill? The Basque Conflict in Spain...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 7–12.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Susan Benesch Law, although blunt and unwieldy for this task, is the main tool to rein in dangerous speech without trampling on freedom of expression. In the past 15 years, international courts have convicted more than a dozen defendants, most of them Rwandan, for incitement to genocide...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of nuclear ter­ deepen, in the future international order rorist attacks were to strike three or four may well be secured not by laws or institu­ cities concurrently in the developed world, tions or even by “coalitions of the willing,” “conventional rules of sovereignty would but rather (in the words...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 68–77.
Published: 01 June 2012
... million refugees who have returned to Afghanistan since 2001, consuming enormous resources to reintegrate, re-house, and support those who have grown up in camps in Pakistan or as exiles in Iran. Because IDPs are not defined as refugees under international law, they remain the responsibility...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (3): 82–88.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... It is a position profoundly at odds Pasha Talaat, an architect of the 1915 geno­ with a tradition of international law that cide. As the assassin faced trial in Berlin, a Americans took the lead in nurturing, as de­ 20-year-old Polish Jew, Raphael Lemkin, scribed in Dorothy V. Jones’s Toward a Ju...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 103–105.
Published: 01 September 2001
... those of the United Nations. Ruth Wedgwood, Professor of Law, Yale University, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, now commuting to Washington to teach at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. An authority on international law and peacekeeping, Ms...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 June 2005
... acknowledged that short-term interest to do so— because, over “humility is always a virtue,” he insisted the long term, the goal of those who think that “the dominant male atop any social that international law really means anything hierarchy, human or otherwise, never man­ are those who want...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to the international rule of law This is a time when the United States should lead the effort to build on the successes of recent temporary tribunals, which have prosecuted Rwandan and Bosnian genocide If Bush withdraws the U.S. signature, America will stand with countries— such as Iraq, China...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 1.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., and even medical workers— are now deliber­ ately targeted by belligerents, with a dismaying indifference to world opinion, much less international law. In our pages, we describe the killing of a New School colleague, a human rights advocate in Indonesia, who was trapped in this lethal crossfire...