Interview – Kurt Mills
Dr Mills talks about R2P, neo-humanitarianism, the limits of norms, the practicality of the International Criminal Court, and the importance of academic networks.
Mothers of Srebrenica v the Netherlands: The Law as Constraint for Peacekeeping?
Balancing the expectations raised by peacekeeping and the legal remedies should make future tort claims as a response to failed peacekeeping missions less plausible.
World Order, Human Rights, and the Security Council Veto
The Security Council is an unedifying conflation of craven geopolitics. The veto power of the P5 is incompatible with the protection and promotion of human rights.
Robust Peacekeeping: A Desirable Development?
The challenge is to find the right balance of deploying strong UN missions that effectively protect civilians whilst maintaining an impartial position in the conflict.
Review – Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights
Freedman’s vivid accounts of human rights violations and the failure of the UN machinery offers an emotional depth that many other books on the subject lack.
Lessons for Sustainable Development from the UN’s Global Desertification Regime
There is significant potential to link the global regimes for climate, biodiversity, trade, and water, in order to facilitate a broader sustainable development agenda.
Israel’s Serial Gaza Offensives Are Offensive
Does the R2P apply in Gaza? This is a silly question – of course it does. R2P is a universal principle, not a light switch to be turned on and off at whim or convenience.
Review – Feminist Strategies in International Governance
Caglar, Prügl & Zwingel’s excellent collection will hopefully help steer the agenda of institutions like the UN and the World Bank towards innovative feminist policies.
Review – UNICEF: Global Governance That Works
Jolly’s analysis offers its readers a powerful understanding of the work that UNICEF has done on humanity-focused development and its unique nature within the UN system.
Human Security at Twenty: Civilizing Process or Civilizing Mission?
The problem for human security is that it continues to be articulated in terms unintelligible to the majority of the subjects in whose name it speaks: humanity.
