GB discusses the many-sided condition of the conditional state with former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy
GB:...
Tags: Aboriginal rights, Arctic, China, duty to care, environmental impact, Global Brief, human rights, humanitarian crisis, humanitarian intervention, India, Inuit, Kofi Annan, Libyan internvention, Lloyd Axworthy, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Russia, Security Council reform, Syrian intervention, US, WW2
Israelâs own âArab Springâ suggests a far more complex national destiny, but one that is to be expected for a maturing...
Tags: Ashkenazi, David Ben-Gurion, David Tal, Fania Oz-Salzberger, Global Brief, Isaiah Berlin, Israël, Jewish identity, Jewish State, Mizrahi, Palestinian, Sephardic, WW2, Yam Tihoni, Zioanism
As the continent emerges from its luckiest geopolitical century, it will have to adjust, in culture and capabilities, to...
Tags: American Civil War, Arctic, Arctic competition, Canada-US relations, Canadian security, CANCOM, diminishing American power, Fenian Raids, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, NORAD, North America, North American Security, North American strategic culture, North American wars, NORTHCOM, Pearl Harbor, Pequot War, Seven Years' War, Soviets, Treaty of Washington, WW2
We have come a long way from Nuremberg, and have miles to go before we sleep
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Hope is the engine that drives human endeavour....
Tags: aggressive wars, Assembly of States Parties, Benjamin Ferencz, Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind, crime of aggression, Global Brief, Harry Truman, ICC, International Criminal Court, Kampala, Kofi Annan, League of Nations, Nuremberg trials, Philippe Kirsch, realpolitik, Review Conference, Rome Statute, Security Council, UN Charter, waging war, war crimes, WW1, WW2
Changes in law, capabilities and posture â at home and internationally â will inform the new centuryâs responsible...
Tags: Bosnia, Cambodia, East Pakistan (Bangladesh), East Timor, genocide, Genocide Prevention Task Force, Guatemala, human rights, Kenya, Kosovo, Madeleine Albright, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, NATO, permanent five, Responsibility to Protect, Roméo Dallaire, Rwanda, Rwandan genocide, Security Council, Senator Hugh Segal, Sudan, Uganda, UN Charter, UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, UN General Assembly, US Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, Will to Intervene Project, WW2, Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Zimbabwe
As Australia settles into a new Prime Minister and government, GB speaks with Australiaâs winningest recent Prime Minister...
Tags: 2004 tsunami, Australia, Australia's foreign policy, Australia-China relations, Australia-Japan relations, Australian identity, Australian immigration policy, Bushâs foreign policy, Global Brief, Indonesia, John Howard, Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Keating, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Timor Leste intervention, WW2