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How Not to Spend $75 Billion
- Analysis
- June 6, 2013
Humanitarian motives are given as the justification for a whole series of foreign policy endeavours nowadays, from the most peaceful forms of foreign aid through to full-scale military invasion and occupation of foreign countries. How is that working out? Two books published this week provide some answers. The first book, titled How to Spend $75
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The ICTY at 20: Mission Accomplished?
- Analysis
- May 29, 2013
by Rachel Kerr On May 25, 2013, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia celebrated its twentieth anniversary. After 20 years and $2.2 billion, what has this extraordinary experiment in international criminal justice achieved? In The Hague, an exhibition commemorating the Tribunal’s 20 years of existence highlighted its ‘significant moments’: the apprehension of all
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Ayatollah Khamenei’s Slow-Motion Power Grab
- Analysis
- May 29, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, May 28, 2013 The field has been set for the June 14 presidential election in Iran. The list of approved candidates to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells us a lot about where the country is going. The selection of presidential candidates reflects the mixture of theocracy and republicanism that characterizes
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The Afghanistan Mission: What Went Wrong?
- Analysis
- May 28, 2013
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, which deposed the Taliban regime, was followed by a major international effort to stabilize that country. More than a decade later, this effort has yielded neither security nor political stability in Afghanistan. At their peak in 2011, there were more than 130,000 foreign troops in the International
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