Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold Wa….

The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Repu….

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of p….

The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether or not the rights as s….

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check"..

It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to av….

When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?"..

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment..

Nothing is more important than restoring a high degree of autonomy to educational experiences so that those who grow up in this society and troubled ….

It was a step forward to charge Pinochet with terrorism, and to acknowledge that the essence of the crime is the use of political violence to induce ….

The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberati….

Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to ….

Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human r….

As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminali….

The deliberate weakening of the labour movement by the machinations of market fundamentalists, gaining momentum during the periods when Margaret That….

This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagina….

On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that woul….

International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able to hav….

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be….

As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains t….

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision to avoid unpopular views from being….