US Diplomacy

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• Climate: Does the World Need a China-US Deal?

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Richard Stewart & Benedict Kingsbury The Copenhagen process is multilateral, focused on reaching global agreements. But to get to a strong and truly effective global climate regime, bold bilateral initiatives may be needed. The conditions are propitious for a deal between China and the US, the world’s ...
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• Blogging the Copenhagen Climate Talks and Climate Finance, More Generally

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Chris Borgen As the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen enters its crucial week, we will be joined by a few guests who will be blogging about the climate talks, sometimes from Copenhagen itself. Dan Bodansky of the University of Georgia ( and soon to be of Arizona State University ) and the author ...
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• “Guilty Robots” in NYT Magazine Ideas 2009 Issue

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Kenneth Anderson One of my favorite issues of the New York Times Magazine is its “year in ideas” issue, which comes annually in December.  Because OJ is a repository of things related to battlefield robotics and law and ethics, I wanted to flag for your attention the item by Dara Kerr, “Guilty ...
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• Council on Foreign Relations Report on R2P

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Kenneth Anderson President Obama’s Nobel Prize speech yesterday made reference to the moral authority, under the ethics of the just war, for armed humanitarian intervention in some situations.  It is a topic that has been debated and discussed as a matter of international law for, well, a long time, but ...
  6 days ago

• Obama’s Hawkish Nobel Lecture

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Roger Alford Obama’s Nobel Lecture is a great speech. He spoke strongly in favor of international institutions and even more so international law. The great surprise of the speech is its unstinting support for just war theory. There is no doubt that Obama’s Nobel Lecture is the most hawkish one in ...
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• A Climate Committment That’s Not A Treaty?

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Duncan Hollis The Guardian has a leaked copy of what it’s calling “the Danish text” (see it here ).  Apparently, this draft was developed by the Danes along with other developed countries including the United States and the United Kingdom in the hope that it might become the basis for whatever ...
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• Blackwater Assassins Posing as Aid Workers

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Kevin Jon Heller The Nation has just published an extensive article documenting the “secret war” Blackwater employees have been conducting in Pakistan.  The opening grafs: At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Voices of U.S. Diplomacy and the Berlin Wall

  
  The Skeptical Bureaucrat — Authority: 124
  Better late than never. Although the Fall of the Wall anniversary was two weeks ago, I saw only today that the State Departments U.S. Diplomacy Center has put up a fine on-line Berlin Wall Exhibit named "Voices of Diplomacy and the Berlin Wall." Check out the Archive portion of the exhibit, in particular. That is ...
  3 weeks ago

• A (Partially) Dissenting View on the US “Observing” the ICC Review Conference

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Kevin Jon Heller When I critique the US’s refusal to join the ICC in my international criminal law class, I make sure to emphasize not only that the US has traditionally played a very positive role in ICL — from Nuremberg to the SCSL — but also that the Rome Statute would be considerably worse but for the ...
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• Harold Koh and the Filing of Statements of Interest

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by Roger Alford One of the remarkable differences between the Obama Administration and the Bush Administration in terms of international litigation is the utter silence of this State Department in filing amicus briefs and/or statements of interest. I know that Harold Koh has only been Legal Adviser since June and ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Constitutional Rights of Public Enemies in Armed Conflict

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 532
  by John Dehn [ Major John C. Dehn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, US Military Academy, West Point, NY. He currently teaches International Law and Constitutional and Military Law, and is also a former prosecutor. He is writing in his personal capacity and his views do not necessarily represent ...
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