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The International Securitization of Climate Change: Success or Hot Air?
Posted on August 21, 2013With the increasing severity of climate change and its associated impacts, and the political stalemate that is characteristic of international climate negotiations, a range of alternative attempts to mobilise political ... -
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The International Criminal Court: A Western tool used to dominate Africa?
Posted on May 21, 2013Not too long ago Bosco Ntaganda, alias “The Terminator”, walked into the US Embassy in Kigali and surrendered himself to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This admittedly surprising event shed ... -
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Will the ICC restrain violence between Israel and Palestine?
Posted on December 9, 2012To the delight of many states and the dismay and indignation of some, Palestine has made a step forward on the international stage. Last week, the UN General Assembly accepted ... -
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Goma has fallen: M23, North Kivu and why Rwanda’s donors might hold the key to peace
Posted on November 22, 2012Goma, the capital of the resource-rich North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, is now in the hands of M23 – a rebel group accused of ... -
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Global politics has arrived in the 21st century – it is time for the UN to follow
Posted on November 3, 2012Since the end of World War Two global politics has undergone profound changes. The world has witnessed the end of colonization and the end of the Cold War. The early ... -
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Brazil’s “RwP”: An attempt to build trust for the flayed concept of “RtoP”
Posted on August 28, 2012The nascent concept of the “Responsibility to Protect” (RtoP) is often described by its critics as a Western idea of how the international community should address genocide, war crimes, ethnic ...