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ICC in Uganda

The international community has been skeptical of the International Criminal Court since the court's inception. How will the ICC's first arrests in Uganda affect its progress?

~Editor Jackie Granick

By The IR  |  January 6, 2007
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The Future of the Bush Doctrine on US Foreign Policy

With President Bush near the six-year mark and his poll numbers sagging, especially on his handling of the war in Iraq, will his neoconservative brand of foreign policy continue to dominate the ideology of the Republican Party after he leaves office and the overall shape of US foreign policy or is “neoconservatism” on its way out? What will US foreign policy look like in the post-Bush years?

By The IR  |  August 3, 2006
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Credibility and Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals in the Wake of Milosevic's Death

Criticism and conspiracy theories have followed the March 11 death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague. Does Milosevic’s death suggest a need for modifications to the international tribunal process? What does his death demonstrate about the credibility of his trial and the legitimacy of international criminal courts?

By The IR  |  May 6, 2006
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Civil Rights War?

Dear IR Wonk,

I noticed that Condoleezza Rice and England’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw spent a week earlier this year on a trip to some of some of the sites of the civil rights movement in Rice’s hometown in Alabama. Rice said the following:

By The IR  |  May 6, 2006
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Bolivia's New President

Bolivia recently elected as president the indigenous socialist leader Evo Morales, who ran on a platform hostile to US policy in Latin America - especially in the area of the US "War on Drugs." Should the United States be concerned about Morales' election, and can we expect changes in US policy?

By The IR  |  May 6, 2006
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Implications of the US-India Nuclear Deal

US President George W. Bush has recently signed a key nuclear energy deal with the Indian government. US Representative Edward Mackey (D-Massachusetts) has stated that this deal had "blown a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by." What effect will the Indian exception have on the Iranian nuclear program, and, more generally, what are the international consequences of the US-India deal?

By The IR  |  May 6, 2006
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