In 1929, after nearly 20 years of facing resistance in Libya, Benito Mussolini, the Fascist ruler of Italy, appointed General Graziani as co...

Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on October 4, 2011, effectively tossing a life preserver, according to the New ...

According to  The  Catholic Herald , there were originally only three conditions laid down by Thomas Aquinas for a just war. According to ...

In Geneva on November 28, 2011, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented its  report , which had been reques...

Philip Alston, a United Nations human rights official, warned the U.S. Government in 2006 that he had received information indicating that ...

The New York Times reported on March 25, 2011 that Syrian military troops opened fire on protesters in the southern part of Syria. Tens o...

Even though people the world over instinctively recoiled as reports came in of Gadhafi's violent retaliation against Libyan protests on...

"When a leader's only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule...

With much power comes implicit responsibility. Hence, on February 21, 2011, the world recoiled when Gaddafi violently turned on his own peo...

In June 2011, a bipartisan group of members of U.S. House of Representatives objected to the refusal of the Obama administration to obtain...

In his foreign policy speech on May 19, 2011, U.S. President Barak Obama attempted to justify his administration’s policy of selective mil...

Imagine some of the blue-collar unionists in Wisconsin's Capitol in February, 2011 suddenly "losing it," insulting officers o...

Foreign policy is typically one of the domains of power that goes to the federal level in a Union of states. The history of the E.U. in i...

Should writing a constitution, or “basic law,” be done piecemeal by successive amendments (e.g., the E.U.), or all at once (e.g., ...

Despite several days of overwhelming popular grass-roots protest in Egypt, on January 30, 2011, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clint...

Gadhafi, or any tyrant who violates the human rights of citizens, can be reckoned as weak rather than strong from a Nietzschean standpoint....

The New York Times describes the War Powers Act of 1973 as follows: “(P)assed in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, [the act] puts limits on...