As Myanmar goes through this transition, much depends on the international, and especially regional and Western, responses to the domestic changes.
Author: Till Papenfuss
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In this interview, Fatou Bensouda responds to criticisms about the International Criminal Court and comments on ongoing investigations.
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David Malone, President of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada, recently published a volume titled Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy. In this extensive account, Malone catalogues the key aspects that affect India’s foreign policy: its history, domestic politics, security challenges, economic factors, and regional relations, to name the most important.
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“An effective accountability process will be as challenging for the new Libyan Government as it will be important for the future of the country,” said Ambassador Christian Wenaweser of Liechtenstein, President of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC, during an interview with the Global Observatory.The question of how to bring to justice the […]
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As the Global Observatory reported in June, territorial disputes in the South China Sea (SCS) have led to a period of diplomatic tensions, particularly between China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. On July 21st, at the end of a two-day ASEAN-China foreign ministers meeting in Bali, an agreement on a set of new guidelines for dealing […]
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On June 26th–a month after the first of the recent incidents –Vietnam and China announced that they have agreed to hold talks on resolving the sovereignty conflict. It is too soon to tell which direction these talks might take, whether they can be considered a success of China’s attempts to resolve the dispute bilaterally or […]
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The risk of confrontation in the South China Sea (SCS) is increasing as a result of recent maritime disputes between China and Vietnam. During two incidents on May 26th and June 9th, Vietnamese oil exploration vessels conducting seismic surveys were harassed by Chinese ships. This has brought to a head the long-standing territorial dispute over […]
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In the past months, international justice has returned to the center stage of multilateral diplomacy, the most recent instance being the arrest on May 26th of former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, who now faces trial in The Hague. Preceding that was the May 19th call by President Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire for the International […]