Shaky monarchies, strategic pressures, and threats to energy and shipping
The failure to date by oil- and gas-rich Persian...
Tags: civil war in Syria, Egypt, gas, Global Brief, Gulf Cooperation Council, Iran, Iran's nuclear programme, Israël, James Dorsey, Libya, Middle East security, oil, Persian Gulf, Persian Gulf security, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
Proposition: “National interests necessarily corrupt humanitarian interventions”
Kyle Matthews (against): Intervening...
Tags: Ethiopia, former Yugoslavia, Global Brief, Kyle Matthews, Libya, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Rwanda, Sudan, UN Security Council, UN Security Council Resolution 1973, Wolfgang Krieger
Ten years after the formal launch of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine, we are coming to terms with the idea that,...
Tags: Gaddafi, Global Brief, humanitarian intervention, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Iraq war, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Libya, Michael Cotey Morgan, NATO, Reinhold Niebuhr, Responsibility to Protect, UN Human Rights Council, UN Security Council, UN Security Council Resolution 1973, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The future of democracy in the Middle East and North Africa is with the unstructured, civic action networks that started...
Tags: Arab civil society, Arab democracy, Arab Spring, Arab world, Arab-Persian relations, Bahrain, civil society, Egypt, EU, European Union, Facebook, Global Brief, Green Movement, Green Revolution, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Middle East, NATO, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sunni-Shia relations, Sven Spengemann, Syria, Tunisia, Twitter, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Yemen
Gareth Evans
…it occurs in the context of the proper application of the much more nuanced ‘Responsibility to Protect’...
Tags: Afghanistan, Bernard Kouchner, Bosnia, Côte d’Ivoire, double standards in foreign policy, droit d’ingérence, Gareth Evans, gaza, genocide, Global Brief, ICISS, International Criminal Court, International Law Commission, John Dugard, Kofi Annan, Kosovo, Libya, mass atrocities, military intervention, NATO, R2P, Ramesh Thakur, Responsibility to Protect, Richard Falk, RtoP, Rwanda, Security Council Resolution, Security Council Resolution 1790, sovereignty, Tatiana Romanova, UN Charter, UN Security Council, UN World Summit, United Nations, Uniting for Peace Resolution, use of foce, Vietnam
Just months ago, if experts, politicians and local administrators grappling with the migration influx from North Africa to...
Tags: Alessandro Callari, Arab Spring, Berlusconi, boat people, Bossi-Fini Law, Dr. Salvatore Gugliemino, Emilano Tidona, Giovanni Salvaggio, Global Brief, Italy, Lampesuda, Libya, Maghreb, Middle East, migration, North Africa, Refugees, Roberto Maroni, Tunisian migrants
