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North American Futures: Canadian & U.S. Perspectives, Managing The Arctic, David Caron
North American Futures: Canadian & U.S. Perspectives, Managing The Arctic, David Caron
David D. Caron
Presentation and discussion of issues relevant to balanced Arctic exploration, multilateral cooperation policy, growth and development and political-economic perspectives.
If Afghanistan Has Failed, Then Afghanistan Is Dead: ‘Failed States’ And The Inappropriate Substitution Of Legal Conclusion For Political Description, David D. Caron
David D. Caron
A Bush Administration memorandum argued that the Geneva Conventions did not apply in Afghanistan because Afghanistan was no longer a state and therefore no longer a party to those treaties. This article argues both that there is not precedent for such a "failed state" doctrine and that it is, as a normative matter, not a desirable doctrine. It is argued that the memorandum inappropriately jumped from the political science description of a state that can no longer deliver basic services to the legal conclusion that the state no longer existed. A step taken despite the fact that no state (including …