Category: International Affairs

Iraq once more, and the shadow of Kosovo

attacking Iraq: why explicit UN authority is essential, with suggested answers to some of the objections raised;

“China executed 64 people convicted of drug crimes to mark the UN anti-drug day, the state media said yesterday.”—Guardian, 27 June 2002. Not exactly what the UN had in mind in naming Anti-Drug Day, presumably. Still, it shows that they were anxious to observe it.

an apology to President Mbeki

The new US-UK doctrine of limited sovereignty and the right of intervention, would intervention in Iraq be legal? (impossible to rule it out)

Attacking Iraq (no grounds for protesting in the streets)

how not to lecture the Americans

Immediate reactions to the terrorism attacks of September 11, 2001