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In the first issue of IP-Transatlantic Edition in its modern format, some of the world's foremost political thinkers ask if we should now expand the boundaries of humanitarian intervention, examine how the legal concept of genocide is finally being applied in courts after half a century, and assess the fallout from the Iraq war.
Princeton's Michael Walzer applies his ethical scalpel to issues of humanitarian responsibility and the interconnection of rights, agents, and (some sort of) enforcement.
Princeton's Anson Rabinbach discusses the genius, limits, and remaining controversies surrounding Raphael Lemkin's invention of the legal category of "genocide" half a century ago. Jurists like Lemkin and historians have different perspectives.
Harvard's Stanley Hoffmann once again gives his verdict on the grand sweep of world events--and faults America's Iraq war for stimulating rather than stemming terrorism, for upsetting the international order that benefited the US, and for tempting Washington into self-defeating unilateralism and illiberalism. He is seconded in this judgment by the Frankfurt Peace Research Institute's Harald Müller.
In addition, European Commissioner Günter Verheugen reveals that an action plan has already been agreed on that can lead to full Israeli participation in the EU single market and includes unprecedented Israeli statements on WMD, terrorism and rule of law, and the future of the Middle East conflict. Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik's Volker Perthes analyzes the motivation of Iran's drive to master the full nuclear fuel cycle as the yearning to be recognized as a regional great power--and the weakness of EU diplomacy with Tehran so long as the US superpower withholds its own gestures of respect. Transatlantic IP Editor Elizabeth Pond speculates that the worst may now be over in transatlantic relations, given President Bush's new full endorsement of European integration and cautious welcome of British-German-French diplomacy with Iran--and what may be the recapture of administration agenda-setting by moderates.
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski further gives a blow-by-blow account of the Kyiv talks that made the Ukrainian Orange Revolution succeed without bloodshed. James Sherr of the British Defence Academy warns of dangers awaiting new Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the UN Environment Program, exhorts the world to preserve robust ecosystems. Georg Koopmann of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics outlines the complementarity between development and globalization. Karsten Voigt, Berlin's Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, makes some surprising comparisons between the very different intersections of religion and politics in Germany and the US. Ulrike Guérot of the German Marshall Fund of the US summons the transatlantic partners to recommit themselves to 21st-century cooperation in a formal treaty. Munich University Professor Marie-Janine Calic probes the (im)possibility of reconciling Kosovar aspirations to full independence with the determination of Serbs to hang onto their erstwhile province. Eminent German political scientist Hans-Peter Schwarz advocates a resurrection of the precept of national interest. And Senior Vice Rector of the Tokyo UN University Ramesh Thakur expresses the hope that a pan-Asian catharsis might come out of the tsunami disaster.
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