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Human Rights Challenges
It has been an interesting couple of days here at the WFM. I have been part of some wide ranging discussions on...
Hamilton: Time to Ratify Law of the Sea
My colleague Scott Paul has been carefully monitoring the upcoming U.S. Senate action on The Law of the Sea Treaty. As Scott...
WFM Meeting
Today was an interesting first day at the WFM 60th anniversary annual meeting. Bill Pace, the head of the WFM’s international secretariat...
Geneva and the Conventions
I have arrived in Switzerland for an important conference put on by the WFM (more on that later). One of the first...
Limbaugh Places Foot in Mouth on Darfur
If ever there has been an issue that is not about liberal or conservative or red state versus blue state, it is...
Law of the Sea on the Move
It hasn't been announced publicly yet, but look for the first Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the Law of the Sea...
‘Scramble for the Arctic’
As my colleague Scott Paul has written on numerous occasions (here and here and here), it is important for the U.S. Senate...
NOAA Planning Arctic Mapping Expedition
Hm. NOAA is undertaking a mission to map out areas to claim in the American extended continental shelf. Of course, unless the...
Progressive Globalism for the 21st Century
If the old adage holds true that every crisis creates an opportunity, the current state of U.S. foreign policy -- combined with...
The Rights Fight
Check out this interview in the Santa Fe Reporter with Jameel Jaffer. Jaffer is a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union...
The Role of Psychologists in U.S. Sponsored Torture
An interesting story published today on Salon.com reports on the position of psychologists in the U.S. vis a vis coercive interrogation strategies...