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The Us Veto Over Palestine's Un Membership, Timothy W. Waters Sep 2011

The Us Veto Over Palestine's Un Membership, Timothy W. Waters

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While the United Nations is in debate over Palestinians’ request for UN membership, the US has already announced their decision to veto. But the over two thirds of Americans who are neither Jewish nor Evangelical should consider saying yes. It may not solve every problem but it could increase the prospects for successful negotiations between Palestine and Israel.


Navigating The Global Health Terrain: Mapping Global Health Diplomacy, David Fidler Jan 2011

Navigating The Global Health Terrain: Mapping Global Health Diplomacy, David Fidler

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This article engages in mapping thinking and practice on global health diplomacy. Increased interest in “global health diplomacy” and “health diplomacy” heightens the need for more rigorous descriptive, conceptual, analytical, and practical approaches to these phenomena. This article discusses why more rigor is needed with respect to global health diplomacy, provides a way to describe global health diplomacy that provides a foundation for further analysis, explores conceptual underpinnings of global health diplomacy to deepen the mapping exercise, and offers a simple but flexible analytical template for use in mapping different aspects of global health diplomacy. The article concludes with thoughts …


Editorial, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson Jan 2011

Editorial, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

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No abstract provided.


Regulating Information Flows, Regulating Conflict: An Analysis Of United States Conflict Minerals Legislation, Christiana Ochoa, Patrick J. Keenan Jan 2011

Regulating Information Flows, Regulating Conflict: An Analysis Of United States Conflict Minerals Legislation, Christiana Ochoa, Patrick J. Keenan

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The connection between conflict and commercial activity is the focus of this paper. In particular, it focuses on the ongoing conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that is funded, in large part, by the sale of conflict commodities – minerals, metals and petroleum that fund violent groups at their source and then enters legitimate markets and products around the world. Recently, attention has turned to how to regulate conflict commerce as a tool for divesting from violent conflict. In the United States, for example, the recently-adopted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act include a provision …


Military Forces, Global Health, And The International Health Regulations (2005), David P. Fidler Jan 2011

Military Forces, Global Health, And The International Health Regulations (2005), David P. Fidler

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Security, economic, development, and humanitarian threats created by infectious diseases have heightened the importance of military forces to national and global public health responses. This article explores the increasing need for military involvement in public and global health surveillance and response to infectious disease threats, and focuses on how military forces can more effectively support implementation of the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR (2005)). The article explains the major changes made in negotiations that produced the IHR (2005) and the importance of these changes to military-to-military activities and civilian-military cooperation. It identifies five areas in which military …


Corporate Social Responsibility And Firm Compliance: Lessons From The International Law-International Relations Discourse, Christiana Ochoa Jan 2011

Corporate Social Responsibility And Firm Compliance: Lessons From The International Law-International Relations Discourse, Christiana Ochoa

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There has been a long and fruitful discourse between and among legal academics and political scientists, known as international law (IL)-international relations (IL) scholarship. A great deal of that scholarship has discussed the effectiveness of particular IL regimes, usually as part of a larger discourse regarding the question of compliance with IL or international institutions, more generally, including agreed norms and soft law. This field of IL-IR scholarship has taken a fairly Westphalian and Weberian view of international law and of international relations, viewing states as the subjects of international law and, thus, seeing states as its subjects of study. …


Ethnicity, Elections, And Reform In Burma, David C. Williams Jan 2011

Ethnicity, Elections, And Reform In Burma, David C. Williams

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No abstract provided.


Let's Not Kill All The Privacy Laws (And Lawyers), Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson Jan 2011

Let's Not Kill All The Privacy Laws (And Lawyers), Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

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Privacy -- An Elusive Concept, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson Jan 2011

Privacy -- An Elusive Concept, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

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Moving Forward Together, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson Jan 2011

Moving Forward Together, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

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No abstract provided.


A Kind Of Judgment: Searching For Judicial Narratives After Death, Timothy W. Waters Jan 2011

A Kind Of Judgment: Searching For Judicial Narratives After Death, Timothy W. Waters

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Much of international criminal law's attraction rests on the 'authoritative narrative theory '--the claim that legal judgment creates incontestable narratives that serve as the foundation, or at least a baseline, for post-conflict reconciliation. So what happens when there is no judgment? This is the situation that confronted the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia when its most prominent defendant, Slobodan Milosevic, died. By turning scholarship's attention towards a terminated trial, this Article develops an indirect but powerful challenge to one of the dominant views about what international criminal law is for, with interdisciplinary implications for human rights, international relations, …