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- Major Security Challenges for the Next President
10/06/2016
Afghanistan, terrorism, U.S.-Russia relations: Col. McCausland gives an expert analysis of all these security challenges and more. Yet he concludes on a hopeful note: "We need to remember that we are a great country. There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic. We endured in the past and by golly, we're going to endure in the future."
10/06/16 - The Eleventh Hour: The Legacy and the Lessons of World War I
03/24/2015
One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" still shape many of today's conflicts, from ISIS's invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls. What lessons have we learned from WWI? Just as important, what have we still not learned?
03/24/15 - Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
10/06/2014
Why do international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential? Based on 15 years of research in conflict zones around the world, Autesserre shows that everyday behavior, such as the expatriates' social habits and actions caused by lack of local knowledge, strongly influence the effectiveness of many peacekeeping operations.
10/06/14 - War and Reconciliation in the Twentieth-Century Balkans
09/03/2014
What are the remedies for the endless cycles of violence in the Balkans? Croatian historian Ivo Banac examines various solutions that have been tried and found wanting, to some extent, and concludes with another possibility.
09/03/14 - A Conversation with Law Professor and Columnist Rosa Brooks on Obama's Foreign Policy
06/12/2014
With an insider's perspective, Rosa Brooks candidly discusses U.S. foreign policy, from Kosovo to Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine, along with her views on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Would Clinton have made a better president?
06/12/14 - The Responsibility to Protect: A New International Norm?
03/13/2012
What is Responsibility to Protect exactly? Dutch Ambassador Herman Schaper gives an expert talk on how it developed, how it is defined, how it was implemented in Libya, and what are the implications for the future.
03/13/12 - Ethics Matter: Policymaker and Scholar Anne-Marie Slaughter
02/22/2012
Anne-Marie Slaughter on the responsibility to protect: "I believe in a values-based foreign policy and looking to cooperate as often as I can. I also think that's basic self-interest. We don't do well when we go in without the support of other nations."
02/22/12 - All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
02/03/2012
David Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts leading to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia. His quest has been to "to discover the right formula, in ever-changing international circumstances, to confront monstrous evil and to do so in the courtroom."
02/03/12 - Ian Hurd on International Law and Security
11/28/2011
"I would disagree with those who suggest international law doesn't really matter. If we look at what states do, they work very hard to marshal legal resources behind their foreign policy choices. They clearly care very much about being seen as following international law."
11/28/11 - Self-Determination and Conflict Resolution: From Kosovo to Sudan
09/28/2010
Drawing on the International Court's judgment on the legality of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence, Arbour examines the pursuit of self-determination in a range of situations, focusing particular attention on the upcoming referendum in Southern Sudan.
09/28/10 - Should We Stop the Next Genocide?
08/19/2010
Should the United States, as the world's greatest military power, use its might to prevent the next outbreak of ethnic violence from turning into a full-fledged genocide? The answer is not an easy one, writes security affairs analyst Erik Schechter.
08/19/10 - Diversifying Diplomacy
07/26/2010
Independent Diplomat's goal of giving diplomatic assistance on a not-for-profit basis fills a niche in international politics and may broaden the understanding of diplomacy in the context of globalization.
07/26/10 - Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction
06/24/2010
After wars end, what steps should countries take to consolidate peace? Graciana del Castillo identifies five premises that are necessary for war economies to transition into sustainable and productive markets.
06/24/10 - Michael Doyle on Nonintervention and the Responsibility to Protect
03/10/2010
What circumstances justify overriding sovereignty? Michael Doyle discusses the difficult questions surrounding nonintervention and the "unanimous revolution" of 2005, which led to the new norm known as the Responsibility to Protect.
03/10/10 - The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century
01/27/2009
Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? Anne-Marie Slaughter begs to differ.
01/27/09 - Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World
05/06/2008
Drawing on his background at the World Bank and as the first post-Taliban finance minister of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani (and co-author Clare Lockhart) develops a comprehensive framework for understanding the problem of state-building. In 2014, Dr. Ghani became president of Afghanistan.
05/06/08 - ROUNDTABLE: Blair's Ethical Legacy
06/27/2007
"To view Blair through Iraq alone is to ignore his extraordinary legacy in the areas of liberal interventionism, international development and climate change," says Roberts, while Spring praises his triumph in Northern Ireland and distinguishes between Bush's "moralist" foreign policy and Blair's more successful "ethical" approach.
06/27/07 - International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction [Full Text]
04/24/2006
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo, and East Timor, the UN or international ad hoc bodies did not just keep the peace. They embarked on the formidable task of rebuilding political authority while acting as de facto governments until that goal was achieved.
04/24/06 - The Changing Role of Humanitarianism: A Study Guide to the Work of Bernard Kouchner
09/22/2004
A study guide to the work of Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Medécins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, including an excerpt from his book, Les Guerriers de la Paix [The Warriors of Peace], published for the first time in English.
09/22/04 - The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century
03/04/2004
Malone points out that disagreements among the Permanent Five Security Council members have been confined to just three issues since the end of the Cold War: Israel-Palestine, Kosovo, and Iraq.
03/04/04