| The War Powers and the United Nations |
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| Who Can Order War? |
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Tuesday, January 21, 2003
12:00 PM
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Tuesday, January 21, 2003
2:00 PM
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Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI |
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| Who can order war? The United Nations was created to be a League of Nations with teeth, and the world body to mediate conflict and protect the peace, by force if necessary. However, with the accession of non-democracies, the UN's asserted monopoly on legitimizing war and peace has become increasingly controversial. Should nations where the people are sovereign, such as the United States, allow others to judge their right to self-defense? Do Angola, Cameroon, China, Guinea, Pakistan, or Syria--all currently serving on the United Nations' Security Council--have any moral right to tell Western democracies what to do? What war is just war--and who should be the judge? |
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| 11:45 a.m. |
Registration |
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Luncheon |
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Introduction: |
Radek Sikorski, NAI |
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Speakers: |
Michael Glennon, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy |
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Jeremy Rabkin, Cornell University |
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David Scheffer, UN Association of America |
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Moderator: |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, AEI |
| 2:00 p.m. |
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More Information
Linzey Powers
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-828-6021
Fax: 202-862-7171
E-mail: LPowers@aei.org
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American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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