Denver Journal of International Law and Policy articles from December 2004

Denver Journal of International Law and Policy archives from December 2004

Keynote address: collective security and the United Nations, University of Denver College of Law, February 28, 2004.
December 22, 2004... Thank you. I'm so pleased to be part of today's important program. I'd like to thank the University of Denver and Ved Nanda for inviting me to join you this morning. I'm especially honored to be delivering the keynote address this morning. I...

Preemptive and preventive use of force, collective security, and human security.
December 22, 2004... I. Legal norms on the use of force remain imprecise. It is axiomatic that the international community is not yet ready to accept strict constraints on the use of force. After all, until recently, war was a legitimate instrument of national...

The preventive/preemptive war doctrine cannot justify the Iraq war.
December 22, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION More than two years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the debate continues about whether the threat from Baghdad warranted abandoning the traditional American national security Nuclear Deterrence and Containment policies in...

Preemptive or preventive war: a discussion of legal and moral standards.
December 22, 2004... Common in today's discourse about U.S. foreign policy are the terms preemptive and preventive war. An enormous problem with the use of these terms is that there has been little attempt to clarify their specific meanings, much less initiate a...

Collective security with a human face: an international legal framework for coordinated action to alleviate violence and poverty.
December 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The inter-dependence of strategic security, human rights, and social security has been recognized on a theoretical or rhetorical level since the founding of the United Nations. Nevertheless, in the current counter-insurgency...

Human security, humanitarian intervention, and third world concerns.
December 22, 2004... Concepts come and go; they do not stay around forever. "Human security" is in, "Humanitarian intervention" is on its way out. (1) The attenuation of global rivalries in the nineties raised new hopes and paved the way for realizing the...

Human security and social development.
December 22, 2004... Global issues no less than community concerns influence social development, though the impact is not always apparent to those most closely involved. One of the harshest realities facing communities in the twenty-first century is the impact of a...

The role of the media, law, and national resolve in the war on terror.
December 22, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the government of the United States took unprecedented steps to protect American lives and property. (1) Measures imposed included tightened security at...

The "imminent threat" requirement for the use of preemptive military force: is it time for a non-temporal standard?
December 22, 2004... For centuries, international law recognized that nations need not suffer an attack before they can lawfully take action to defend themselves... scholars and international jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of preemption...

Preemptive self-defense in an age of weapons of mass destruction: operation Iraqi freedom.
December 22, 2004... Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. President George W. Bush (1) I. THE FIGHT OVER PREEMPTION With the promulgation of the Bush...