Posted By:  CWBloggers Posted On:  Jul 24, 2008	The ICC: An Irresponsible, Counterproductive Court
Last week the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an indictment against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir. The ICC tries genocides, war crimes, and “crimes against humanity”, and the chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo apparently thinks that the Sudanese...... [view]

Posted By:  ReillyY Posted On:  Jul 2, 2008	Heather’s Challenge: Canada and the Zimbabwe Crisis
My colleague Heather here on Canada’s World has offered a difficult question: What should Canada do about the crisis in Zimbabwe? To that end, she’s also provided a helpful round up of the various responses proposed so far: Canada is proposing tough sanctions on a Mugabe-led...... [view]

Posted By:  vincehof Posted On:  Apr 13, 2008	Why the World is Politely Ignoring Tibet and thus screwing Tibetans over.
Why it is unlikely that any one is going to stand up for Tibet? There are many small wars going on at any time involving minorities who would prefer to have their interests represented equally to that of majorities, or rather do it themselves. Whatever the common denominator of a...... [view]

Posted By:  RaquelEvita Posted On:  Nov 2, 2007	Rudy Giuliani: If it was good enough for Pol Pot, it MIGHT be good enough for me!
Rudy Giuliani “isn’t sure” if waterboarding - a simulated drowning technique allegedly used by the United States armed forces in the war on terror - is torture. Waterboarding induces the feeling of imminent death - see also, mock execution - which is illegal under...... [view]

Posted By:  KarstenWenzlaff Posted On:  Feb 26, 2008	Done!
Oh, this morning I got up after four hours sleep and I felt like Moist von Lipwig when he’s been awaken by Vetinari , the Tyrant of Ankh-Morpork, after climbing around Ankh-Morpork at night. Thanks to Tealin for the great picture! After getting up, I went to the Exam Hall and...... [view]

Posted By:  KarstenWenzlaff Posted On:  Feb 21, 2008	Three down
I don’t sleep well before exams. Not because of excitement, but usually when I crammed my head with the things in the book, I get so many interesting ideas. Brains are strange. Just came back from US Foreign Policy exam. I answered questions on China and on Economic Foreign Policy. Went...... [view]

Posted By:  KarstenWenzlaff Posted On:  Feb 4, 2008	International Law vs Philosophy
Today I had the last seminar in International Law. I had to present three cases, two WTO cases and one NAFTA case, where environmental and developmental goals clashed with free trade objectives. It went quite well, given that I only had a few hours effectively to work on the presentation. On...... [view]

Posted By:  KarstenWenzlaff Posted On:  Nov 3, 2007	Course choices and academic life in Cambridge
Classes are very intense and I spend a lot of time in my College library and the department library, but I am really happy that I came to Cambridge. What I really like about my Master Programme is that it is exactly the kind of mixture between applied research, theoretics, economics, law and...... [view]

Posted By:  Steve04 Posted On:  Jun 23, 2007	SECURITY COUNCIL’S HARIRI RESOLUTION –a review
-by Barr. Stephen Edetanlen. The Security Council, on 30th May 2007, adopted Resolution 1757 establishing a Special Tribunal for Lebanon to come into force on 10th June, 2007। Essentially, the Tribunal is to “try” those found to be responsible for the February 14th 2005 assassination...... [view]