Australia Should Pursue Ambitious Climate Change Mitigation Policies
A successful transformation of the energy system will ultimately depend on a political agenda that comprises a plurality of efficient climate policy instruments.
UN Peacekeeping in Darfur: A ‘Quagmire’ That We Cannot Accept
The Security Council must move away from its policy of militarized peacekeeping in favour of doing something that may actually work in alleviating human suffering.
Examining the UN World Intellectual Property Organization
Drawing significance from the World Intellectual Property Organization data is affected by how one thinks about their own future in the global economy.
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification: Issues and Challenges
Institutionalisation processes and the North-South debate limit the optimal deployment of the Convention in addressing poverty and ensuring sustainable development.
The Moral Obligation to Intervene in Rwanda
Whilst the genocide was transpiring in Rwanda in 1994, there was only one morally defensible course of action for the international community – intervention.
India’s Vote on Sri Lanka: A Responsible Choice
On 27 March 2014, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 25/1 on Sri Lanka. India abstained in the vote, which was a sensible, responsible, and balanced decision.
The Veto: Problems and Prospects
Permanent Security Council membership and the veto appear anachronistic relics. They are here to stay because every proposed change raises as many problems as it solves.
Climate Change, Limits to Adaptation and the ‘Loss and Damage’ Debate
An actor-centered and sustainable development framing would lead to a politically-achievable response to the urgent problem of climate-related crises around the world.
When WPS Met CEDAW (and Broke Up with R2P?)
18 October 2013 was a red letter day for global women’s rights, revolutionizing the situation of women in conflict prevention, conflict & post-conflict situations.
Revisiting ‘Responsibility to Protect’ after Libya and Syria
R2P contains glaring theoretical drawbacks and its practice by Western powers creates the scope for a mix up of humanitarian concerns with their strategic interests.
