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US Bans Export of Nearly All Cluster Munitions!
Obama will today sign legislation banning the export of any cluster munitions with more than a 1% failure rate (i.e. that leave behind dangerously explosive ‘dud’ bomblets more than 1% of the time)....
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My Op-Ed in The Guardian on Obama’s Refusal to Sign the Landmine Ban
The Guardian, a UK daily newspaper, ran an opinion editorial of mine decrying the Obama Administration’s decision not to sign the international landmine ban. Click here to read it. To read a previous...
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Op-Ed: Obama’s landmine stance doesn’t match Nobel rhetoric
In this Op-Ed in The Examiner (Independence, MO, USA), I argue that joining the landmine and cluster munitions bans would be a way for President Obama to live up to the rhetoric in his Nobel Peace...
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The Role of Middle Power–NGO Coalitions in Global Policy: The Case of the...
Thomas Nash, over at the Cluster Munition Campaign, and I published an article in the most recent issue of Global Policy looking at how the Cluster Munition Ban illustrated increasing levels of...
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Op-Ed Celebrating Cluster Bomb Ban Entry into Force
Last Sunday, the global ban on cluster munitions came into force, establishing a clear international standard that these weapons, that cause such horrific harm to civilians in current and former war...
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NY Times Cites Allegations of US Cluster Munition Use in Yemen
This week the New York Times cited Amnesty International’s allegations that the US used cluster munitions in a strike in Yemen in December 2009. The article also references a Yemeni parliamentary...
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Threats to the Global Norms on Landmines and Cluster Munitions
In this recent article for The Examiner (Independence, MO), I warn against becoming complacent in the struggle to rid the world of landmines and cluster munitions. I point to recent reported violations...
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Victory for Norm Against Cluster Munitions!
The campaign against cluster munitions successfully defeated an attempt to undermine the Cluster Munition Ban at a conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons last week. Over 50 states, led by...
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Unlikely Bedfellows: US and Iran on the Laws of War
In a post on Global Policy’s blog today I try to puzzle through how two very different countries — the USA and Iran — end up with similar positions on the Arms Trade Treaty process, the landmine ban,...
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Proposal for an International Convention on Robotic Weapons
Reflecting a trend toward the outsourcing and technologizing of warfare, robots — aerial drones, armed ground robots, automated turrets, autonomous torpedoes — are becoming an increasing presence on...
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