Denver Journal of International Law and Policy articles from June 2003

Denver Journal of International Law and Policy archives from June 2003

Resolving sovereignty-based conflicts: the emerging approach of earned sovereignty.
June 22, 2003... Today there are nearly fifty sovereignty-based conflicts throughout the world. Nearly all of these conflicts entail a high degree of violence with state security forces engaged in active combat or aggressive policing operations against armed...

Earned sovereignty: the political dimension.
June 22, 2003... The contemporary world is beset by conflicts and issues that seem to challenge the utility of sovereignty as conventionally understood. (1) Stephen D. Krasner INTRODUCTION There are currently over fifty sovereignty-based conflicts...

Earned sovereignty: juridical underpinnings.
June 22, 2003... Sovereignty either is or is not. --Stephen Leacock (1) It is undeniable that the centuries-old doctrine of absolute and exclusive sovereignty no longer stands, and was in fact never so absolute as it was conceived to be in theory. ...

Earned sovereignty: the road to resolving the conflict over Kosovo's final status.
June 22, 2003... The classic nineteenth-century concept of sovereignty, even if it rarely pertained in practice, was a concept of absolute territorial sovereignty. In the twenty-first century, sovereignty is necessarily shared and dependent on agreements with a...

Military commissions and terrorism.
June 22, 2003... President George W. Bush's Military Order of November 13, 2001, issued just thirty-two days after the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001, pointedly adopted the language of war and, almost by fiat, declared that terrorism was a war...

Bridging the gap between international law and foreign policymaking.
June 22, 2003... "Lawyer and diplomat... are not even attempting to talk to each other, turning away in silent disregard. Yet both purport to be looking at the same world from the vantage point of important disciplines. It seems unfortunate,...

Developments and limits in international jurisprudence.
June 22, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION Today, it is hardly possible to deny the important role that the judicial decisions of international tribunals play in the promotion and execution of states' treaty law commitments, as well as those of international custom....

China's great western development project in Xinjiang: economic palliative, or political trojan horse?(Go West development plan, strategy to alleviate poverty and bridge economic disparity gap)
June 22, 2003... The Han nationality has the population, the minority nationalities have the land... It is thus imperative that the Han assist the minorities in raising their standard of living and socialist ideological consciousness, while the minorities...

WTO and the Environment.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Sweet & Maxwell, London (2001); (146 [pounds sterling]); ISBN: 0-4218-2420-4; 368 pp. (hardcover). One of the most vexing contemporary economic, legal, and political issues is the interrelationship between and underlying tension involving...