Results for “United Nations”

…ntervention if the Syrian government forces used chemical weapons against civilians (Wroughton, 2013). In the past, the United States has abided by the norm against the use of chemical weapons even at the expense of American lives: In WWII, Franklin D. Roosevelt chose to eschew c...

…tity of its witnesses before trial. However, the basis for such grants of authority now seems defunct. For instance, in United States v. Armstrong, the Ninth Circuit recognized no authority exists in the federal rules for requiring the government to disclose the names of its witn...

…’s position on the matter is usually presented as a long-standing and clear “no.” The reality is more complicated. The United States has addressed this question six times 1n both internal memos and briefs filed in litigation. And a review of these documents shows that it is far...

772 federal law where the defendant has suffi- cient contacts with the United States as a whole but is not subject to jurisdiction in any particular state, there must be a fed- eral claim, personal jurisdiction must not exist over the defendant in any state, and the defendant mu...

(2) As used in this subsection, a “United States person” means a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1101)) or any corpo- ration, partnership, association, joint-stock company, business trust, unincorporated...

…fe haven in Moscow. Even though the grand jury case against Snowden was cut and dry, it was also irrelevant because the United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia. The purpose of the intelligence investigation went far beyond determining Snowden’s guilt or inn...

…ecause most of the Internet actually travelled through fiber-glass land-line cables that crossed the territories of the United States, Britain and Australia. So the NSA found the technical means, including voluntary gaining access to major Internet companies, to “harvest” vast am...

why not? It had been founded in the wake of the allied victory over Nazism by nations—mostly democracies—that had been on the right side of the war against Germany

…divisions within Islam. Those divisions stem from its ancient political legacy as a “caliphate,” a religious state with united by military might, but with constantly shifting borders. Following the Ottoman collapse after World War I, European colonial powers assumed the role of r...

…cans need, in this telling of history, only patience. The world will catch on. And | suppose that if you grew up in the United States after World War Two, such a vision of the world certainly would be consistent with your own experience. The problem is that sucha comfortable post...

…use on May 15, when John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser, received Jeno Megyesy, Orban’s chief adviser on the United States. (Megyesy was also the official point of contact for then-Trump aide Carter Page’s meetings in Budapest during the campaign.) This coming week, Fo...

…U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivers a speech on national security in San Diego, California, United States June 2, 2016. Clinton, the front-runner in the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee, delivered her speech as she seeks to shift her...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 While these premeditated and carefully organized killing sprees were taking place, the United Nations fiddled on about the imperfections of the United States, Israel and other western democracies. The real victims of this inversion have not been the western dem...

… part it reflected the Chinese system’s deep conclusion that American global power was in relative decline and that the United States would not confront China militarily if China sought to expand its regional military presence. In part it reflected a Chinese institutional conclus...

…U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivers a speech on national security in San Diego, California, United States June 2, 2016. Clinton, the front-runner in the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee, delivered her speech as she seeks to shift her...