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Apr 1, 2009

G20 Solves Financial Crisis and More!

By James Joyner

Tufts University political economist Dan Drezner passes on news of what he terms “The Miracle of London.” Your humble blogger has learned that, in an amazing reversal of fortune, the leaders of the G-20 have heeded President Obama’s call to embrace a “responsiblity to co-ordinate our action and find our common ground.” 

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Mar 15, 2009

EU Hands Chad Mission to UN

By James Joyner

The European Union has handed over command of the peacekeeping mission in Chad to the United Nations. 

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Feb 26, 2009

Former Serb President Cleared of Kosovo Crimes

By James Joyner

The international community has once again struck out in its attempts to find a senior Serbian leader criminally liable for attrocities in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

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Jan 17, 2009

Turkey: Bar Israel from UN

By James Joyner

In perhaps the strongest sign yet of Europe turning away from Israel, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for her suspension from the UN. Israel should be barred from the United Nations while it ignores the organization’s calls to stop fighting in Gaza, Turkey’s prime minister said Friday, urging the world not to turn a […]

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Jan 15, 2009

Israel Shells UN Headquarters in Gaza

By James Joyner

Breaking news from AP: Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel’s devastating offensive against the territory’s Hamas rulers.

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Dec 18, 2008

Global Governance Deficit

By Robert Manning

Once again, a crisis is brewing in Somalia, this time compounded by the global impact of piracy around its waters. And once again, it illustrates several dimensions of the global governance deficit arising from the challenge of weak and failing states, still, all too often, largely unmet.

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Oct 6, 2008

Blue Helmets and Gray Hulls: The Need for Maritime Peacekeeping

By Derek Reveron

When thinking about peacekeeping, blue-helmeted soldiers come to mind. With 82,000 peacekeepers deployed on sixteen active UN peacekeeping operations around the world, that’s not surprising.   Recent piracy activity in the Gulf of Aden, though, suggests that peacekeeping needs to encompass the maritime domain as well.

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Sep 25, 2008

Expand the Security Council? Non. The G8? Oui.

By James Joyner

French and EU President Nicolas Sarkozy issued a call from the floor of the UN yesterday to expand the Security Council and G8.    Declaring that, “The 21st century world cannot be governed with the institutions of the 20th century,” he argued that inclusion of today’s emerging powers is not just “a matter fairness” but a […]

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Mar 1, 2000

The Kosovo Crisis: The End of the Post-Cold War Era

By Alexei G. Arbatov

Just a couple of years ago very few people in the United States, Russia or Western Europe, beside experts on the Balkans, would have recognized the name Kosovo and still fewer would have known anything about this obscure Serbian province. Since early 1999 all the world’s attention has been concentrated on the events in this […]

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