Robert Pape thinks the Genocide Convention and R2P have failed, but Gareth Evans and Ramesh Thakur disagree.
Four contentious, unofficial themes have come into focus: Cuba, the War on Drugs, Colombia’s realignment, and Latin American regionalism.
Amid an alarming rate of criminal violence, Guatemalans head to the polls on November 6th to elect a new president in a contest that bucks the leftward trend of Latin American politics.
In the search for new approaches, community-led peacebuilding networks may have a key role to play.
Economic growth is difficult to achieve, harder to sustain, and insufficient to improve living standards, and this is the context for understanding and grappling with the idea of economic reform in Iran.
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