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APR 19, 2001 • Article
Willing to Kill But Not to Die?
Is American policy drifting toward an approach that could be labeled "willing to kill but not to die"? If we consider ourselves a moral nation, ...
APR 19, 2001 • Article
Exempting the United States from Equal Justice under Law
The International Criminal Court will indict individuals, not governments, and it will try only those accused of especially horrible crimes that "shock the conscience of ...
APR 19, 2001 • Article
Should States Apologize?
According to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, the United States owed China an official apology (baoqian) for sending out a spy plane that collided with a ...
MAR 27, 2001 • Article
Aid to the Former Yugoslavia
This report on the Balkans Forum held on Capitol Hill by the Carnegie Council's Conflict Prevention Program includes annotated links to primary source information, special ...
MAR 19, 2001 • Article
The Details Matter: Human Rights and the War on Terrorism
Is a deepening clash between human rights and national security inevitable?
FEB 15, 2001 • Article
Moral Dilemmas of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq
When it comes to issues such as imposing sanctions, pursuing assassination, overthrowing regimes, and waging war, the moral questions may be the most important ones.
JAN 20, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Introduction: Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention
The most immediate and visible effect of humanitarian intervention is on the actual human rights abuses that it is supposed to stem. Does the intervention ...
JAN 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Post-Conflict Institutions That Promote Human Rights: The Human Rights Chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Recent military humanitarian intervention has been based on the need to protect human rights, and a successful military campaign under this banner must assure ...
JAN 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Kosovo's Little-Known Victims: The Fate of the Roma Following the Entry of NATO Troops
Following the return of the ethnic Albanians to Kosovo in June 1999 and the entry of NATO (KFOR) troops into the province, Albanians conducted a sustained ...
JAN 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: A Credibility Problem in Kosovo: The Undermining of Local Human Rights Culture
The international community’s failure to respond earlier to human rights violations, its refusal to explain its actions in terms of human rights motivations, and ...