American diplomacy once leaned against aspiring dictators. But Trump found reasons to cozy up to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte at this week’s ASEAN meetings.
Mark Leon Goldberg
Mark Leon Goldberg is the executive editor of UN Dispatch and host of the Global Dispatches podcast.
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Stopping a Genocide Before It Starts
The international anti-genocide movement that began in the wake of Darfur could prevent the next crisis in Sudan.
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Obama’s Darfur Test
The International Criminal Court is expected to issue a warrant for the arrest of Omar al Bashir, president of Sudan, in the coming weeks, heightening tension in the region.
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The John Bolton Agenda
In his new memoir, John Bolton sneers at his former colleagues, charts his rise as a conservative, and revels in his own intractability.
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The Coming Peacekeeping Crunch
The costs of UN peacekeeping missions across the globe have ballooned — and, along with them, so have America’s arrears.
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THE ICC WONT…
THE ICC WONT LET THEM BE. The International Criminal Court just issued its first arrest warrants for suspected war crimes in Darfur. Two people, a janjaweed commander and a Sudanese government official, are wanted for trial in The Hague. As the ICC does not have a Marshall Service of its own, whether or not these […]
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Legal Bind
In August 2003, the Sudanese government tasked Ahmad Harun, an official in the Ministry of Interior, to oversee the recruitment of janjaweed militia in Darfur. Earlier that year, separatist rebels in Darfur caught the central government off-guard in a series of surprise attacks on state installations. It was thought that the janjaweed — militiamen comprised […]
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PREVENTING THE NEXT…
PREVENTING THE NEXT DARFUR. On UN Dispatch (where I also blog), Lee Feinstein explains how the United Nations can build capacity to prevent the next Darfur. The absence of a rapid response capability is a problem that dates back to the UN’s founding. But the time may be right to address this deficiency head on. […]
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WHICH SIDE ARE…
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON, EDWARDS? I don�t know Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, but if Edwards does fire them, it would appear that he�s caving to the demands of a bigoted right-wing activist who worked very hard to make sure that Edwards would not be elected vice-president in 2004. My favorite quote from Catholic […]
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GETTING HOT IN HERE.
GETTING HOT IN HERE. Don�t tell James Inhofe, but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just issued its much-anticipated report on global warming. The 20 pages of policy recommendations contained therein are sure to be ignored by the flat-earth devotee, who earlier this week pre-emptively criticized the report’s underlying science in an interview with CNN’s […]