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Conversations with America: The New START Treaty

Office of the Spokesman of the State Department

Washington, DC

July 29, 2010
Ellen Tauscher, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, will hold a conversation with Steven Pifer, Director of the Brookings Institution’s Arms Control Initiative, on the New START Treaty. The discussion will be moderated by Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State, …

The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence

FPC Briefing
Harold Hongju Koh
Legal Adviser of the Department of State
U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell
Foreign Press Center
Washington, DC
July 22, 2010
4:00PM EDT
MODERATOR: Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Foreign Press Center. This afternoon we are pleased to have the legal advisor of the Department of State Harold Koh, …

The International Court of Justice issued its advisory opinion on the lawfulness of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence today. The New York Times reports:
Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, the United Nations’ highest court said Thursday in a ruling that Kosovo heralded as a victory but that legal experts …

Professor Michael J. Glennon is one of the most thoughtful scholars of international law today. At a time when far too many writers paint an overly optimistic picture of the current state of the international legal system, Mike Glennon assiduously works to give an accurate portrayal of the realities of the law. Stanford University Press has just published his latest …

The White House released today, the Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force.  Not surprisingly, one of the recommendations is for the US to ratify the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Task Force notes:
The Task Force strongly and unanimously supports United States accession to the Convention on the Law of the Sea …

After a week of presentations, discussion sessions, embassy visits, a Capitol Hill trip, a crisis simulation, and much more, Georgetown’s International Relations Program for High School Students comes to an end today as the students head back home.
I want to thank everyone for an exceptionally successful Summer International Relations Program for High School Students! Thanks to the presenters, the simulation …

On Day 7 of the Program, the students are participating in a crisis simulation on the Balkans War. The simulation is a historic simulation that begins in 1991. The students are divided into groups representing states and other non-state groups that were involved in the conflict. Ideally, students will use the tools they have learned over the course of the …

Day 6 was the last day of the academic presentations. We began with a talk from Professor Catherine Lotrionte about cyberwarfare. Dr. Lotrionte explored international law dealing with the use of force and then applied it to questions of cyberwar. She was followed by Professor Phillip Karber discussing the challenges of nuclear weapons. During his presentation, Dr. Karber showed a …