Happy 20th Birthday, Montreal Protocol!
Opinio Juris has a fantastic post regarding the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer's September 16 birthday. According to...
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Ignatius: Wider War or Creative Diplomacy?
The Washington Post's David Ignatius lays out four creative diplomatic opportunities that might diffuse the growing tension between the United States, Iran,...
Larry Cox Wows UWC-USA/AI NM
Larry Cox, the executive director of Amnesty International USA, is truly one of the best human rights activists around. He just gave...
More from New Mexico
I just ran a pair of back to back workshops here at UWC-USA on international law and justice issues. The energy in...
Where’s the Justice, Mr. Secretary General?
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon just returned from a week in Darfur and the surrounding region, and reported his findings and...
Bad news from Pakistan
Two pieces of bad news coming out of Pakistan in recent days, one involving the political situation and the other on the...
Nuclear Insanity
My colleague, Scott Paul, raises some good points about a about a recent(-ish) Washington Post editorial attack on Mohamed ElBaradei and the...
The Minute: Ratify the Law of the Sea
RATIFY THE LAW OF THE SEAThe Earth from space is a soft collage of green, blue, brown and white. National borders are...
John Bolton Sings His Greatest Hits at Heritage
In delivering the Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and current American Enterprise Institute Senior...
From Off to the Side Comes a New Vision
Last week I was chatting with the Global Interdependence Initiative's Director and occasional Switchblog contributor, David Devlin-Foltz, over lunch about global issues...
The Rogue Regulator Responds
Mohamed ElBaradei, "Rogue Regulator" and head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, accused his Western detractors (read Washington Post Editorial Board) of...
U.N. Friends Silent on Foreign Ops
Yesterday, on an 81 to 12 vote, the Senate passed the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of...