New doctrines and crushing budgetary pressures may well make a non-nuclear world seem irresistible. But regional rivalries...
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Ten years after the formal launch of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine, we are coming to terms with the idea that,...
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The future of democracy in the Middle East and North Africa is with the unstructured, civic action networks that started...
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Gareth Evans
…it occurs in the context of the proper application of the much more nuanced ‘Responsibility to Protect’...
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Pakistan’s internal troubles and external behaviour point increasingly to the need for an increasingly muscular Indian...
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The stubborn Afghan theatre may very well be the incubator for new experiments in bottom-up stabilization of war-torn states
Ten...
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Changes in law, capabilities and posture – at home and internationally – will inform the new century’s responsible...
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This week, NATO defence ministers are meeting in Bratislava for their thrice-annual regular meeting. Topping the agenda will...
