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01 May Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
China and Russia are resisting calls for sanctions against Sudan and South Sudan being pushed by the United States and other Western nations within the UN Security Council. South Sudan has claimed that Sudan bombed oil fields yesterday in the latest clash between the two nations. The decision on Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s immunity in the civil law suit brought against him by the Sofitel housekeeper is due today. In the most explicit acknowledgment to date, John Brennan made a speech yesterday discussing the US’ targeted killing program. Marty Lederman linked to...
14 Jun Options for a Peace Settlement in Ukraine: Option Paper VII – Multilevel Peace Agreement Design: Dealing with Geopolitical Support
...Resettlement of displaced people. As issues of return affect not just Ukraine and Russia, but the international organisations who manage issues of resettlement and return, and the third-party host states, this is an issue that is likely to require some level of geopolitical agreement. Sanctions relief, reconstruction and international financial support. These all require geopolitical agreement between those involved in imposing sanctions, and will need to be linked to whatever settlement is agreed between Russia and Ukraine. Regional stability framework. Any wider regional stability framework that would attempt to include...28 Nov Gareth Evans on the “Dogs that Don’t Bark”: Are regional and international peacekeeping efforts reducing the incidence of war?
The LA Times recently carried this op-ed by former Australian FM Gareth Evans on the successes of preventive diplomacy and peacekeeping (perhaps better described as peacemaking) missions around the world. He cites the Human Security Report 2005 for evidence that the incidence of war is on the decline, and that third-party interventions (diplomatic, sanctions, military deployments) play a large role in the success stories. As Evans notes, one of the problems of measuring success is how to determine the conflicts that were avoided – the Holmesian (Sherlock, not Oliver Wendell)...07 Jun Did You Hear? But for the ICC, the War in Libya Would Be Over
...fled to Tunisia. This defection is a big deal. Ghanem had been at OPEC when Libya was under economic sanctions, and his return to Libya as prime minister and head of the ruling party in 2003 was intended to signal Muammar Qaddafi’s return to respectability in the international community. Ghanem became the face of the reformed Libya, which had given up its dabbling in chemical and other weapons and was willing to privatize its state sector industries and do big deals with Western oil companies. He staunchly defended Qaddafi, going...
16 Dec Gaza, Genocide, and the UN General Assembly (Part 1)
...and legitimise UNGA actions. Part 2 asks what action the UNGA should take in light of this report. Specifically, whether the UNGA has the legal authority and should recommend UN Member States to issue sanctions against Israel until it fully complies with the ceasefire agreement, and whether states following those recommendations can do so legally. Independent Commission of Inquiry Report 2025 The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (“the Commission”) was established on 27 May 2021 by the Human Rights Council....17 Nov Weekly News Wrap: Monday, November 17, 2014
...added he was concerned about the threat of ethnic cleansing. German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday he does not believe tighter sanctions against Russia will help resolve the Ukraine crisis even though Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday the European Union is considering further sanctions. Sweden has confirmed that a small foreign submarine illegally entered its waters last month, though it was still unclear which country was behind the intrusion, officials have said. The British prime minister has outlined plans to seize passports from British nationals linked to...03 Apr Efficient Breach of An Agreement to Publish?
Justice Holmes famously argued that “If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.” Holmes was articulating the contractual concept of an efficient breach. If the costs of performance exceed the benefits to all the parties, a breach of contract is...
06 Jun Can War Crimes Trials in Ukraine Convince Russians to Stop Supporting the War?
...of Russia’s aggression and the demand that Russia abide by its humanitarian law obligations. Despite international denunciation of Russia’s aggression and a barrage of EU and U.S. sanctions, 57% of Russians blamed NATO for the death and destruction in Ukraine, 17% blamed Ukraine itself, and only 7% blamed Russia, according to Levada. Levada also found Putin’s approval rating rose from 61% in August 2021 to 83% in March 2022. That Russian public opinion is so much at odds with the way much of the rest of the world views the...21 Jun Forced Landing of a Passenger Plane: Law and Politics Behind the Ryanair 4978 Flight from Athens to Vilnius: Part I
...while in reality none was found. On the other hand, a Byelorussian oppositionist and his girlfriend, who were among the passengers, got detained during the ‘security operation’. The whole affair turned into a diplomatic scandal, accusations of Belarus breaching international air laws, the suspension of flights through the Belarusian airspace linked with the suspension of operating permits for Belorussian national carrier Belavia as well as economic and person-targeted sanctions. Was the diversion of the Ryanair plane by the Belarusian army in accordance with international law? The paramount question surrounding the...25 Jun Linos Book Symposium: Response to Eric Posner and Ryan Goodman
...exact mechanism do my experimental results support? Eric Posner’s post begins with a provocative question: Does evidence of policy diffusion imply that “international law is weaker than generally recognized”? More specifically, does the fact that states mimic one another inflate our estimates of how influential international law is? I don’t think so. However, diffusion studies suggest that international law might exert its influence through somewhat different pathways than we often emphasize. Individuals comply with domestic laws for a variety of reasons – some are deterred by the possibility of sanctions,...