Guest Contributor: Michael Shale 30th November 2013 The anti-depleted uranium movement sprung during the Balkan wars and has been central in anti-war outfits ever since. The anti-DU crowd capitalizes on public ignorance and fear about nuclear power to preach tales about depleted ...
Read More »The legal, political and moral Legitimacy of Intervention, both in Syria and Elsewhere
Humanitarian intervention has, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, been an issue that has dominated discourse in international law and diplomacy. Debate concerning the topic can be generally placed into two camps. In the first, the realist belief of the sacrosanctity of states’ sovereignty when it comes to dealing with their internal affairs, no reason but self defence should allow states to bear arms against one another
Read More »Guest Article: The Mutating Crisis in Somalia
Guest Contributor: Siiri Makela de Oliveira 5th September 2013 The nature of the crisis in Somalia is ever changing; Somalia experienced a civil war in the 1980s and state collapse, clan factionalism and warlordism in the 1990s. Over the last ten ...
Read More »Guest Article: The Full Force of International Law Should be Applied to the Assad Regime
Guest Contributor: Harry Langford 28th August 2013 It appears that intervention is now inevitable following confirmed reports that the Assad regime used chemical weapons as part of a widespread assault on an Eastern suburb of Damascus. I have previously explored ...
Read More »However History Will Judge the Iraq War, Liberal Interventionism is Back
Guest Contributor: Kenny Stevenson 28th August 2013 ‘Was the price too high?’ asked Kirsty Wark. ‘Of course the price is very, very high’, replied Tony, ‘but think of the price people paid before Saddam was removed’. Defiant as ever, Blair strolled ...
Read More »Robert Halfon MP: We must intervene in Syria – the arguments against doing so do not stack up
Guest Contributor: Robert Halfon MP 27th August 2013 There are always three and half arguments against intervention: first, that it is outside the framework of international law; second, that Realpolitik should be the order of the day; and third, ‘What ...
Read More »Guest Article: Obama and Cameron on the Road to Damascus
Guest Contributor: Dr James D. Boys 25th August 2013 During his all too brief time as president, John F. Kennedy was understood to have lamented the difficulty he faced in making the threat of American power credible. ‘The place to ...
Read More »Guest Article: US-Russian relations – SNAFU
Guest Contributor: Dr James D. Boys 9th August 2013 Russian and Chinese intransigence over Syria has doubtless enabled President Assad’s forces to re-group and repel rebel advances. The great challenge for the US, however, is knowing quite who the rebel ...
Read More »Guest Article: Tony Blair Showed True Moral Leadership over Iraq
Guest Contributor: Advisory Board Member Peter Watt 5th August 2013 There has been an awful lot of noise again recently about Iraq. The overall sense was that in deciding to commit British forces in the second Iraq war Tony Blair had ...
Read More »Guest Article: Our Failure to Act in Syria is making the World a more Dangerous Place
Guest Contributor: Advisory Board Member Peter Watt 2nd June 2013 Use conventional weapons and you will be on the right side of the red line. Use chemical agents and we will move the red line. I remember in the aftermath of ...
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