GB speaks with one of the worldâs gentleman-geokrats
GB: What are the key strategic priorities of Japan today?
DM:...
Tags: Abenomics, Africa, APEC Summit, Asia, Ban Ki-moon, China, Dag Hammarskjold, David Malone, Global Brief, International Criminal Court, Japan, Japan-Canada relations, Japan-China relations, Japan-India relations, Kofi Annan, Latin America, Prime Minister Trudeau, purchasing power parity, Shinzo Abe, social development, Tokyo, UN Secretary General, UN Security Council, UN system, UNHQ, World Bank
The European peace is logically prior to the Middle Eastern one, and it can only be built trilaterally
Russiaâs move last...
Tags: China, Cold War, East-West relations, East-West tensions, Eurasian Economic Union, European stability, Global Brief, global security, Irvin Studin, Middle East order, Middle East security, Middle East security framework, NATO, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Russia-West conflict, Russian foreign policy, Russian politics, Rwanda genocide, Syria, Syrian conflict, Ukraine, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
GB exchanges on the wisdom of Libya, the doability of Syria, and other candidate-theatres with Canadaâs leading soldier-statesmen
GB:...
Tags: Congo, crimes against humanity, DRC, Gaddafi, genocide, Global Brief, internally displaced persons, International Criminal Court, jus cogens crimes, Libyan intervention, military intervention, NATO intervention, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Roméo Dallaire, Rwanda, Syria, UN Charter, UN Security Council, war crimes
In North America and Europe, there is no war, and no prospect of war. In Asia, there is no war but very real prospects for...
Tags: aggression as crime against humanity, Assembly of States Parties, crime of aggression, Don M. Ferencz, Global Brief, Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression, ICC, illegal use of force, International Criminal Court, International Military Tribunal, Kampala amendments, Nazi leaders, Review Conference, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, UN Security Council
Proposition: âNational interests necessarily corrupt humanitarian interventionsâ
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 âResponsibility to Protectâ 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
Gareth Evans
âŠit occurs in the context of the proper application of the much more nuanced âResponsibility to Protectâ...
Tags: Afghanistan, Bernard Kouchner, Bosnia, CĂŽte dâIvoire, double standards in foreign policy, droit dâingĂ©rence, 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
