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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) provides that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the freedom "either individually or in community with ... political philosophy. See JOSEPH RAZ, THE MORALITY OF FREEDOM 165-216, 321-366 (1986) [hereinafter RAz, MORALITY OF FREEDOM]. 7. For discussion of value pluralism as a moral theory in political philosophy
intellectual and geopolitical currents highly reminiscent of those that gave birth to the New Haven School. On the one hand, the New Haven School was a response to Cold War realism, a philosophy "which ... Constitutional and Political Theory] , SELA - II. CONCLUSION: TOWARD INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PLURALISM ...................................................... 419 I. INTRODUCTION I am struck by the similarities
continue to pose serious challenges for achieving national integration and political stability. In the past, the vast majority of African states have carefully avoided coming to terms with the heterogeneity ... Liberal Theory of Secession, 32 POL. STUD. 21, 21 (1984) ("Secession is a forgotten problem of political philosophy."); Yael Tamir, The Right to National Self-Determination, 58 Soc. Rns. 565, 565 (1991
The precise causes of the "resource curse"-the relationship between natural resource extraction and an increase in poverty, violence, and political instability-remain unknown. Yet the relationship ... sense, the failure of the project manifested itself in the design 2011] details but was caused by the World Bank's more fundamental failure to consider the social and political context of its lending
influence and are influenced by social, economic, and political shifts. Nowadays, in view of ever intensifying foreign investments and other cross-border ventures, the institution of property may face its ... Tobin & Susan Rose-Ackerman, When BITs Have Some Bite: The Political-EconomicEnvironmentfor Bilateral Investment Treaties, REV. INT'L ORG. (forthcoming), available at http://www.springerlink .com/content
the world. When institutional failures and international pressures threaten the democratic accountability of elected institutions, as they do in most countries in political transition, jurists may ... a common feature of judicial life."); see also Yasuo Hasebe, ConstitutionalBorrowing and Political Theory, I INT'L J. CONST. L. 224, 235-36 (2003) (describing the process by which "[tihe Japanese
As the global economic crisis deepens, even the governments of major market economies are susceptible to domestic political pressures to adopt protectionist trade policies. In a speech given at the ... domestic constituents through an orderly political or administrative process is a challenge for both mature democratic societies and rapidly democratizing countries like Korea. If the domestic decisionmaking
at the international level is changing. Whereas conventional wisdom assumes that international law reduces state sovereignty, this Comment argues that international political organizations and legal ... bodies" broadly to include not only international political organizations, such as the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly, but also international courts, such as the International Court of
-reviled Insular Cases a century ago, and technically unchanged by the adoption of a constitution and "commonwealth" status in the 1950s. Broad dissatisfaction with this constitutional and political limbo ... political system and the U.S. Constitution. Harder to imagine is how the constitutionally unique arrangements in the different territories, just like those on American Indian reservations and in the District
vision more than an actual state. A moral vision and a political commitment: to "no peace without justice, ... repository of some four million people in a region of millions more-a "they" not always included in "our" discussion. 3 There, in that place, people also have moral and political commitments, and the pressing
Products), and the parties began submitting written complaints in May 2004. The dispute implicates not only technical concerns about barriers to trade but also political questions about democratic ... ............................................................................................................................. 93 A. Risk Assessment Is Contingenton Values andPolicyJudgments................................ 94 B. Risk Assessment Depends on Political,Social,and Regulatory Contexts.................. 96 C. Public
. See generallyDINSTEIN, supra note 16, at 208-11 , 219 - 5 1. 38. See , e.g., Thomas Hurka , Proportionalityand Necessity, in WAR: ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 124 (Larry May ed., 2008 ) (discussing ... Chapter on "Principles" prohibits "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."' On the other hand, the Chapter on "Action with respect to threats to
effectiveness of these new constitutions. Some charge that they are really just "shams" or ornamental documents that serve to consolidate power among political elites, fail to create a meaningful democratic ... really just "shams" or ornamental documents that serve to consolidate power among political elites, 3 fail to create a meaningful democratic system, and persist in disempowering non-elites and commonly
. When diplomatic efforts and political or economic sanctions fail, military action in the form of a humanitarian intervention is often considered as a last resort. ... lack of political will and determination among the main political actors. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) bombing of Kosovo in 1999 to end ethnic cleansing and other mass atrocities
about the practice of arbitration. At the same time, the book also avoids becoming overly abstract. However, the book remains an introduction, and fails to deeply engage with political philosophy and ... international relations theories. Paulsson's book offers new approaches on three issues concerning arbitration: its underpinning political philosophy, its locus of authority, and the public challenge. Although
destruction during times of peace, though there is considerable attention given to its treatment during times of war. Nonetheless, economic development and the consequences of political ideology, frequently ... against its political, economic and cultural elements are in violation of international law." Moreover, "each State has the right freely to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural
WTO rulings, even after controlling for important characteristics of the state filing the request and the political importance of the affected industry. These results demonstrate that understanding the ... feedback on earlier versions of this draft during presentations at the 2012 American Society of International Law Research Forum, and the 2012 International Political Economy Society Conference. We also
the region. In a year filled with enormous political change-the aftermath of the Iraq war, the death of Yasser Arafat, and the assassination of Rafik Hariri--this Symposium on Nation-Building in the ... and orchestrated by organized groups for the sake of their own political power. In nations as varied as Congo, East Timor, India, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, these groups have included the government, the
regime. Indeed, the promotion of human rights and democracy abroad is a central motivating tenet of U.S. foreign policy, manifested in the nation's extensive foreign assistance commitments, political and ... commitments, political and financial support of international human rights bodies, linking of bilateral aid to human rights improvements, and annual reporting on the human rights situation of 194 nations of the
In Freud and Philosophy, Paul Ricoeur presents Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the "three masters of suspicion." What was common to all three, writes Ricoeur, was their ... PHILOSOPHY: AN ESSAY ON INTERPRETATION 33 (Denis Savage trans., 1970). 2. Id. 3. Id. at32. 4. See id.at 33-34. 5. Id. at 34. 6. Id. at 33. 7. Id. One particular context to which Reisman's demystifying