Global Governance
Could a United Nations Code of Conduct Help Curb Atrocities? A Response to Bolarinwa Adediran
Although a UN code of conduct may have little effect on Security Council decision-making, the proposals have already proven their worth in political and normative terms.
Japan’s Withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission: A Disaster that Could Have Been Avoided
Former IWC chair Cristian Maquieira writes that Japan’s decision was a long time coming, but it didn’t have to be this way.
Reforming the Security Council through a Code of Conduct: A Sisyphean Task?
In this feature, Bolarinwa Adediran disputes the utility of a code of conduct to regulate the exercise of the veto at the UN Security Council during humanitarian crises, arguing that such a code would not make any significant difference to the way mass atrocity crimes are addressed.
What We’ve Been Reading
Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading in July.
International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense, by Larry May and Shannon Fyfe
Larry May and Shannon Fyfe take up a wide range of critiques that scholars and others have leveled at international criminal tribunals and argue that although most have some validity, none are fatal to the enterprise of international criminal justice.
EIA Interview on Crime and Global Justice with Daniele Archibugi
Adam Read-Brown talks with Daniele Archibugi about selectivity, “winners justice,” and the perceived legitimacy international criminal tribunals.
Trump at Davos: Trickle-Down American Engagement
In many ways, the vision of American leadership within the global community of nations resembles a form of trickle-down theory.
A New World? Changes in the Global Order
This past week, I had the opportunity to host Lowell Schwartz at the Naval War College, and his comments about the shifts he is observing in the global order made a real impression. He posits that we are in the midst of a major shift–that the prevailing assumptions of the last twenty-five years about the […]
