Anthony Clark Arend

Reuters is reporting:
BELGRADE, March 31 (Reuters) – Serbia’s parliament apologised on Wednesday for the 1995 killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, but the process only highlighted how deeply polarised the country remains about its wartime past.
The resolution expressed sympathy to victims and apologised for not doing enough to prevent the massacre, but stopped short of calling the killings …

A  previous post contained State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh’s Address before the American Society of International Law last week. As the post demonstrated, one of the areas that Koh discussed was the legality of targeted killings. Koh noted:
In U.S. operations against al Qaeda and its associated forces– including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles– great …

My friend and distinguished Georgetown colleague, Professor Richard Stites, died on March 7 in Helsinki. Stites was a brilliant scholar and teacher, whom I met with I was a student at Georgetown University in the 1970’s. My first contact with Richard came when I was enrolled in Professor David Goldfrank’s History of Russia class. Stites taught the other section of …

Yesterday, Department of State Legal Adviser Harold Koh delivered an address at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law on the Obama Administration and International Law. The video clip above is from Koh’s discussion of targeted killings, including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
From the Department of State website, here is the complete text of Koh’s address …

Mark Leon Goldberg posts:
In this edition of UN Plaza, I speak with Charli Carpenter, a political scientist and human security analyst at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.  (She also blogs!) We chat about human security, the new Security Council report on Somalia; a new gender entity taking shape at the UN, and what Battlestar Gallactica can teach the United Nations. Enjoy!

The Master of Science in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University and Ambassador Maura Harty and The International Centre of Missing and Exploiting Children will be hosting a Panel Discussion on International Families in Crisis: The Legal Response on Thursday, March 25, 2010, 2:30 p.m in Copley Formal Lounge on Georgetown’s Campus.
Panelists Include:
Judge Peter Messitte, US District Court, District …

My friend and Georgetown colleague, James Raymond Vreeland posts over at The Vreelander:
Thomas Meaney (Columbia University) and Harris Mylonas (George Washington University) have an interesting take on the Greek tragedy in the European Community:
“What hasn’t yet shattered the EU just might make it stronger.”
This is particularly true for Germany. They argue that the German dithering over what to do about …

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

March 11, 2010

Every year, the Secretary of State hosts a briefing like this one. And while in that sense it may seem routine, this event is extraordinary because of its connection to who we are as a country and to the universal aspirations we seek to make real through our foreign policy.
The idea of human …