Neotrusteeship or mistrusteeship? the "authority creep" dilemma in United Nations transitional administration.
ABSTRACT State failure poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security. The collapse of governing institutions breeds civil wars, generates refugee flows, causes enormous civilian suffering, foments instability in neighboring countries, and provides safe havens for transnational criminal and terrorist organizations. As a result,...

Squeeze play on Darfur.
Byline: Beth Day Romulo FOR months, Darfur has symbolized man's inhumanity to man, with writers and observers bewailing the torture, murder and mayhem inflicted by the "janjaweed" terrorist army on the civilians, men women and children, of Darfur, in Sudan. But despite the passionate editorials, speeches at...

A European common defence community in the making?
The very concept of a European defence policy is laden with problems, as is clear to anyone with a passing knowledge of history and a map. As of I January, 2007, the European Union is composed of 27 countries. Some were enemies for centuries; many fought one another to...

Shake hands with the Devil.
For Canadians waiting for our part of the story to be brought to the silver screen since a brief glimpse of Nick Nolte's unnamed character in the Hollywood blockbuster Hotel Rwanda, the time has arrived. Although Shake Hands With The Devil will not likely outshine the Oscar-nodded Hotel Rwanda,...

Twenty years of Ploughshares' Armed Conflicts Reports: 1987-2007.
In 1987 Project Ploughshares began documenting major armed conflicts with the publication of the first armed conflicts map in The Ploughshares Monitor. For the past 20 years the annual map and related information have informed people around the world on the nature and extent of violent conflicts. ...

Weiss, Thomas G. Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action.
Weiss, Thomas G. Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action. Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007. 176 pages. Paper $19.95. The work is a concise, straightforward, and even-handed analysis of the shifts and contradictions in the theory and practice of military intervention undertaken for humanitarian purposes. The...

UN peace operations and Asian security.
0415372038 UN peace operations and Asian security. Ed. by Mely Caballero-Anthony and Amitav Acharya. Routledge 2005 146 pages $110.00 Hardcover JZ6374 Inspired by the workshop of the same title held in...

Senate vote descriptions.
11 SCHIP. H.R. 976 would reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to the amount of $60.2 billion for five years. The proposed amount would expand the program by $35.2 billion and cover an addition 6.1 million children. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Senate passed H.R....

A separate peace: leaving the country to save it.
CASABLANCA, SEPT. 17, 2010--The international conference that opened in this beautiful city yesterday is expected to put some final touches on a United Nations-sponsored accord on the future of the new state being set up in Mesopotamia, the Confederation of Iraq and Kurdistan (CFIK). The agreement was reached in...

Trust will aid forces' chaplains.
As part of a continuing effort to increase support for Anglican military chaplains, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison has established a $50,000 Military Chaplaincy Pastoral Trust with part of the proceeds from his two recent fundraising dinners. The most recent dinner, held last October, focused on youth and the...