By David O. Monda|2021-09-24T18:10:15+00:00September 24th, 2021|Featured, Justice, Practice|1 Comment
Three different types of coups have occurred in Guinea, Mali, and Chad, and they are worth identifying. These are opportunistic, oligarchic, and sultanistic coups. Opportunistic in the case of Guinea, oligarchic in the case of Mali, and sultanistic in the case of Chad. All of the coups were staged as military takeovers of civilian government, but in different contexts.
By David O. Monda|2021-02-12T20:59:40+00:00February 12th, 2021|Practice|0 Comments
By: David O. Monda President Joe Biden’s first foreign policy speech was high on ideals but low on priorities regarding
By Dan Corjescu|2021-02-18T20:13:03+00:00February 1st, 2021|Arts & Letters, Theory|0 Comments
By: Dan Corjescu Globalization is conquest and surveillance. The exuberance, greed, curiosity, cruelty, racism, ignorance, and sundry lusts for power,
By Dan Corjescu|2021-01-29T17:20:16+00:00December 11th, 2020|Arts & Letters, Theory|0 Comments
By: Dan Corjescu (Optimistically dedicated to Steven Pinker) In a world suffering from a global pandemic, it would be both
By Laura N. Bell|2021-01-29T17:19:51+00:00December 11th, 2020|Practice|0 Comments
For the first time in international law, a credible investigation into a terrorist assassination has been followed by a credible trial proceeding. With its judgment, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s (STL) became first ever international proceeding to prosecute a terrorist crime (the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005). Although largely overlooked in the wake of the deadly Beirut port explosion, food shortages, anti-government protests, and pandemic, this is a milestone in Lebanese and judicial history.
By Dan Corjescu|2020-12-11T21:10:14+00:00November 20th, 2020|Theory|0 Comments
By: Dan Corjescu Is the world making more love than war these days? And if so why? It is a
By David O. Monda|2020-11-16T15:16:19+00:00November 13th, 2020|Practice, Uncategorized|0 Comments
Biden’s win means that multilateralism is the new game in town. Trump preferred unilateral pursuit of American national interests through bilateral trade negotiations with individual countries on the continent. Ironically, individual countries on the continent gained great traction with the Trump administration. Now policy makers are not sure how the new administration will approach these negotiations.
By David O. Monda|2020-08-13T19:40:16+00:00June 15th, 2020|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
Non-permanent rotating membership seats on the Security Council do not afford the weaker nations of the world an avenue to advance their interests. Developing nations are played off against each other by major powers based on the perceived allure of a non-permanent seat. Without reform, these seat are little more than contemptuous tokenism.
By Laura N. Bell|2020-10-08T16:14:02+00:00June 5th, 2020|Practice|1 Comment
Post-9/11, assassination has become a new norm in the asymmetrical conflict between states and terror groups. While the appropriateness, if not justness, of targeting terror leaders is still a matter for debate, the killing of Soleimani is an escalation of the use of assassination.
By Dan Corjescu|2020-06-12T18:00:25+00:00May 16th, 2020|Practice, Theory|0 Comments
The First World War traumatized the political and cultural life of Europe, especially in the German speaking world. Heidegger's, Jasper's, Freud's, Junger's, Hesse's (not to mention Hitler's) inter-war works are unthinkable without this bloody caesura in European history. In a profound sense, the inter-war period in Germany (but not only) could be viewed as a psychic expression of what we would call today: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One of the more notable of these dark intellectual manifestations was Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political. Yet Carl Schmitt is closer to us than we are usually likely to admit.
