US Double Standards US Double Standards
The effort by the Bush Administration and Congress to portray the planned invasion of Iraq as simply an effort to enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions reaches a ...
Oct 10, 2002 / Editorial / Stephen Zunes
The UN Gambit The UN Gambit
George W. Bush's decision to "involve" the United Nations in his plans to attack Iraq does not indicate a conversion to multilateralism on the road to Baghdad. Washington's con...
Sep 12, 2002 / Editorial / Ian Williams
Keeping the UN in Line Keeping the UN in Line
So far this year, US diplomats have secured the removal of Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights; José Bustani, head of the Organization for the Prohibition of ...
Jun 27, 2002 / Editorial / Ian Williams
Milosevic, Still at War Milosevic, Still at War
It is probably safe to say that the war crimes trial in The Hague of the former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic is not going well. At least so far. No credible witnesses ha...
May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Judging the Tribunals Judging the Tribunals
After years of collecting evidence against Slobodan Milosevic, the prosecutors at The Hague expected a decisive victory. But as the former Yugoslav president, who insisted on d...
May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar
‘I See Thuh Black Card…’ ‘I See Thuh Black Card…’
A review of Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog.
May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda
Unsigning the ICC Unsigning the ICC
History will record April 11, 2002, as a day of enormous significance in the effort to achieve the rule of law in the conduct of international affairs. It marks the day the Treaty...
Apr 11, 2002 / Editorial / John B. Anderson
View From Beirut View From Beirut
First, the Arab League summit here in Beirut was chaos. Then it was the nearest to Arab unity that the Middle East has seen since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The chaos, of ...
Apr 4, 2002 / Editorial / Robert Fisk
Milosevic at the Bar Milosevic at the Bar
The trial in The Hague of the first state president indicted for genocide was to be the ultimate showdown. In the culmination of a fifty-year struggle by the human rights communit...
Mar 14, 2002 / Editorial / Anthony Borden
A New Middle East Approach A New Middle East Approach
It's time for the UN Security Council to impose "externally directed separation."
Jan 10, 2002 / Feature / Jerome M. Segal