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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The “Responsibility to Protect” is Just a Slogan

posted by Alex de Waal

The text of my presentation to the BBC’s World Tonight last week is now available online. (With a sentence added to reflect JEM’s attack on Khartoum, which occurred between my recording the piece and the time it was broadcast.) The more substantive article on which this was based was published last year in International Affairs [...]

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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Miliband versus de Waal on R2P

posted by admin

The World Tonight last night on BBC Radio 4 was a 45 minute special devoted to an examination of the UK’s foreign policy. It was structured around Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s four priorities, viz terrorism, conflict and the responsibility to protect, carbon and the international system, with interviews and clips preceding a section by section [...]

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