A conflict of sovereignties
An unusual article, but a good one, in the First Post by Claire Berlinski worries about the possibility of an oil tanker accident in the Bosphorus, the sea passage between […]
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international law
Independence for Kosovo
The province of Kosovo emerged from its chrysalis last week as a new state, separate from Serbia of which it was part for so long. It is not yet a
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Dan Hannan is the wrong person to write about Kosovo
A blog post by my good friend Daniel Hannan proposes the partition of Kosovo as a means of avoiding war. Read it here. He makes it all sound so easy,
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Apologising for slavery
Straying from the discussion about the EU institutions for a moment, my eye is caught by the report on a debate about slavery in Bristol (read it in The Independent
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A global parliamentary assembly
Professor Andrew Strauss addressed a meeting this evening on how to set up a global parliamentary assembly. He was speaking at a meeting organised by the One World Trust, so
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What is the international community?
Federalists are pretty suspicious of the notion of the “international community”. It is generally taken to mean gatherings of countries who get together to enact common policies that might otherwise
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Guantanamo Bay: a hole in the laws of physics
By Richard Laming The detention camp established by the United States at Guantanamo Bay has become notorious around the world. It is used as a prison camp for prisoners captured
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After Iraq: can we build a better world?
By Adrian Taylor As the Iraq war fades, some repairs need to be made to transatlantic relations. The good news is that Europeans and Americans can probably agree that: i)
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Milosevic in court: no peace without justice
By Laura Davis Slobodan Milosevic’s transfer from his Belgrade prison to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on 28 June 2001 was headline news: he would be the
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Justice and revenge: the lessons of 11 September
By Geoffrey Robertson QC The immediate and rightful response of the United States to the atrocity of 11 September was to demand ‘justice’, although that word sounded, in many powerful
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