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29 Jun

Mark Kersten I absolutely love Eve of Destruction but will add two more recent anti-war songs by Michael Franti - Bomb the World (with the great line "we can bomb the world to pieces but we can't bomb it into peace) and Light Up Your Lighter (with the great lines "In the Afghan hills, the rebels fighting / Opium fields keep on providing / The best heroin that money can buy an' / Nobody know where Osama bin hidin'") Daragh Murray Great list!A couple of others I like are 'Handsome...
29.06.12 | |

15 Jun

...English language is not such that it could not said things were lost in translation here. Criticize Israel's actions in the raid if you want, but this statement of Netanyahu's does not do what you claim it does. Not by a longshot. Elliott To summarize, if he were referring to any forthcoming results he would have said something along the lines of "the results of this commission of inquiry will show that Israel acted legally in the raid on the flotilla...", or "this commission will no doubt conclude that Israel...
15.06.10 | |

13 Mar

...Afghan armed forces." http://www.janes.com/defence/news/misc/jwa011008_2_n.shtml Jane's Defense 08 Oct, 2001 "Of the 45,000 men available to the Taliban, Pakistani and Arab religious volunteers have played an increasingly important military role. The Arabs, deployed mostly on front lines north of Kabul, number an estimated 500 to 600 and form part of Osama bin Laden's `055 Brigade'. Pakistani volunteers are far more numerous. By mid-1999 as many as 9,000 to 10,000 Pakistanis were believed to be serving in Taliban ranks, some in combat roles and others in rear support, static guard and administrative...
13.03.09 | |

15 Apr

...the threat or use of force to violate international lines of demarcation, such as armistice lines, established by or pursuant to an international agreement to which it is a party or which it is otherwise bound to respect." Though the war may have been between the Koreas, this does not necessarily mean that the Armistice Agreement (see S/3079, available through UN ODS) only binds those States. Of course China also is a party to it, but more importantly General Clark, Commander-In-Chief of the United Nations Command committed the United Nations...
15.04.13 | |

17 Jul

...thought was really interesting, but the comment ended up being so long (over a 1000 words) that I posted it over at my blog. Just thought I'd let you know. Feel free to comment! I'd love to continue the discussion, whether here or over there. Francesco Messineo Xavier, A very interesting reply along lines similar to what I would have asked Tobias. The 'superiorem non recognoscens' criterion is perhaps satisfied by the EU from the internal point of view of EU law itself - the ECJ being the final settler...
17.07.10 | |

23 Apr

...medical supervision and restrictive guidelines could be viewed as something less than torture. The authors clearly knew they were drawing black and white lines in a very gray area. And since the cite the fact that over 26,000 US servicemen have been waterboarded as part of their training since 1992 (and many thousands more before that), then either: (a) the US routinely tortures its own servicemen; or (b) at some level of intensity, waterboarding is not torture. The authors chose (b). Is that clearly irresponsible, or just a point on...
23.04.09 | |

23 Nov

...Maybe someone should review that for IHL? SMM Disagreeing with an earlier response... The fact that much of our young culture today is indoctrinated with plots and story lines from movies, television shows, and now video games it seems increasingly likely that these sort of plot developments and exposure to violations of International law could very easily have a lasting effect. Being a young male I have several friends who have joined the armed forces simply because they enjoyed the idea of being able to be a real life "First...
23.11.09 | |

08 Aug

...(and the second sentence of Article 2(1) says that this commander is Russian) (http://smr.gov.ge/uploads/file/jpkf/1994-12-06%20Resolution_JPKF_Eng.pdf). The idea of 'restoring peace' seems to be something along the lines of what Russia has been saying, but I don't think that this would help much on its own. I am not entirely sure where one would put a decree by JCC in terms of treaty interpretation (since JCC has a Russian, S-Ossetian and Georgian members, perchance it is subsequent practice as per Article 31(3)(b)?). In any event, the text and context suggests that what...
08.08.08 | |

18 May

...it should be subject to derogation during armed conflict. There is much Supreme Court precedent supporting the abridgment of private property rights during war. Milligan suggests that certain circumstances might permit abrogation of even more than property rights. Military necessity for intelligence does not stop with battlefield interrogation. Thus, I am not sure the extent to which we can draw clear lines for the temporal (to capture) or proximal (to the battlefield) applicability of the Fifth Amendment during an armed conflict, assuming it applies at all. What if a simple...
18.05.09 | |

06 Jun

In its relentless quest to recover the underseas treasure recently found by a Florida-based company, the Spanish government has instructed its Navy, pursuant to a court order, to detain to U.S. ships belonging to that company. Those ships are currently in Gibraltar, but apparently, they will be boarded and seized as soon as they leave Gibraltar and enter Spanish waters. I’m a little fuzzy on the geography here (maybe the attached map helps?), but assuming that crossing Spanish waters is necessary to leave Gibraltar, the two U.S. ships are out...
06.06.07 | |

05 Sep

...suspicion that international law is a pretty weak instrument, especially when dealing with great powers. Nonetheless, states and other international actors use international law all of the time, and they certainly invoke it to try advance their own particular interests. So it’s good to have some idea what international law is, how it works, and what it can and cannot do. One of the challenges for IR students is that not all political science departments offer international law on a regular basis. Crossing campus to take international law at the...
05.09.12 | |

27 Aug

...do not usually claim the right to exclude other nations’ aircraft from their ADIZ, as if it was sovereign territory. (For a recent discussion of the legal issues in ADIZ declarations, see here). Now, since China has usually been careful to avoid crossing into Taiwan’s ADIZ (or at least parts of Taiwan’s ADIZ), its decision to do so now is interesting and significant. But it is not a territorial incursion and it is not (technically) breaching “Taiwan’s airspace”. So news agencies should be careful not to report it as such....
27.08.14 | |