Elisabeth Shue saves the world and more
Recommendations for Friday, 9 February 2024
Nuclear fusion, clean energy, catastrophe averted. Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue save the world. It’s feeling a lot like 1997! #EnvironmentalLaw https://bbc.com/news/science-environment-68233330
Ukrainian children testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commission about being kidnapped and taken to Russian-controlled territory, where they were cut off from their family and “brainwashed” into supporting Russia. #ArmedConflict #CriminalLaw https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1228453066/taken-by-russia-then-rescued-young-ukrainians-speak-out
Iraq describes the US strike on a Kataeb Hezbollah commander as a “clear-cut assassination operation.” Yet Iraq does NOT use language to indicate that the Iraqi state will be responding. However, the Harakat al-Nujaba movement, a non-state actor in Iraq, indicates that it believes it can make a “targeted retaliation” and “[US] crimes will not go unpunished.” Oy vey! #UseOfForce #UpholdingIL https://aje.io/8ur6nq
History matters: Can the UN step in and govern Gaza? Kal Raustiala recounts the challenges of 1957, when UN peacekeeping forces took control under the supervision of the brilliant diplomat Ralphe Bunche. #CompetingPerspective https://www.justsecurity.org/91942/who-will-govern-gaza-lessons-from-the-u-n-s-1957-experiment/
For more on the forgotten legacy of Ralphe Bunche, you can check our Kal Raustiala’s book, The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire (2022), published by Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-absolutely-indispensable-man-9780197602232?cc=us&lang=en&