Opinio Juris U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Rogue States

This conference at UCLA on March 11 addressing the topic of U.S. foreign policy toward rogue states looks really interesting.

On March 11, 2008, the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA will convene a conference featuring Governor Bill Richardson, Burkle Center Senior Fellows General Wesley Clark (ret.) and Former Foreign Minister to Thailand Kantathi Suphamongkhon and leading scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and military experts who will help us explore and analyze several crucial questions. Is "rogue state" a useful concept, and if so, what defines a rogue state? How has the United States treated such states in the past, and what lessons can be gleaned from these episodes? Under what conditions is engagement, isolation through sanctions and other means, or military action likely to be most effective? Join us to help shape and explore what our nation's foreign policy should be toward current states of concern like North Korea, Iran and Pakistan and for the future.

The conference schedule is here

(link)

Benjamin Davis (mail):

I guess that includes states that torture and disappear people, right?
Best,
Ben

3.5.2008 11:10am

I just got this on the subject that might be of interest to those at the conference today.

The Leading Rogue State: The US and Human Rights

Judith Blau, David Brunsma, Alberto Moncada, Catherine Zimmer (eds.)

Paradigm Publishers (2008)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Frances Fox Piven

1. Human Vulnerabilities
Bryan S. Turner

2. Rights to Housing
Dave Overfelt
David L. Brunsma

3. Health as a Human Right
Antonio Ugalde
Núria Homedes

4. Labor Rights
Vincent J. Roscigno
Andrew Martin

5. Rights of the Child
Brian Gran

6. Rights of Minorities and Migrants
Cecilia Menjivar
Rubén G. Rumbaut

7. Women’s Rights
Ibitola Pearce

8. Rights of the Disabled
Jean Lynch

9. Rights of Indigenous People
Keri E. Iyall Smith

10. Rights to Sexual and Gender Self-Expression
Gerald F. Lackey

11. Language Rights
Tanya Golash and Douglas Parker

12. Cultural Rights.
Rodney D. Coates

13. Rights to Water, Food, Development
Jenniffer Santos-Hernandez
John Barnshaw

14. Environmental Justice
Damayanti Banerjee

15. Rights of Prisoners
Angela Hattery
Earl Smith

16. International Humanitarian Law:
John Hagan
Ron Levi
Wenona Rymond-Richmond

17. Democratic Rights
Mark Frezzo

18. The Social Forum Process and Human Rights
Marina Karides

19. Freedoms
Judith Blau
Alberto Moncada

International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

3.11.2008 5:28pm

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