Hitoshi Nasu (ANU): The Expanded Conception of Security and International Law: Challenges to the UN Collective Security System. Fred Grunfeld (Utrecht): International Law and International Relations: Norm and Reality or Viceversa. Cindy Daase (FUB): The United Nations and the Secretary-General as Mediators and Norm-Promoters Global Norms and Standards in the Mediation of Intra-State Conflicts. From the Goettingen Journal of International Law, Alexander R. J. Murray (Lancaster): Does International Criminal Law Still Require a "Crime of Crimes"? A Comparative Review of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity; and Mayeul Hieramente (Max Planck): The Myth of "International Crimes": Dialectics and International Criminal Law. From Vision, David Hulme on Global Problems, Global Solutions: Weapons and warfare; inadequate food and water; and injustice. Daniele Archibugi on why international courts and tribunals need to become real instruments of justice — and not simply tools for the strong — if the promise of Immanuel Kant's universal community is to become a reality. A review of The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics by Kathryn Sikkink. Avoiding the scourge of war: Donald Hempson on the challenges of United Nations peacekeeping. Making UN peacekeeping more robust: Patrice Sartre on protecting the mission, persuading the actors. Non-state actors and human rights: Gustavo Mauricio Bastien Olvera on the case of arms manufacturers. The pink elephant in the corner of the room that nobody wants to acknowledge: Michael E Harris on the dichotomy of multinational corporations, instruments of foreign policy, development, and impediments to corporate criminal prosecutions for gross human and humanitarian rights violations.
