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We Asked Ruth Wedgwood: What Should Be The Purpose Of American Power?

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia National Interest
Friday, August 21, 2015

American power is an offshore balancer—deterring pugilistic regimes that fancy the land or resources of neighbors, and serving as a caution to dictators possessed of outlandish ambitions.

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UN-THINKABLE: The United Nations Is Not The Place To Regulate The Internet

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia The Briefing
Monday, March 2, 2015

The United Nations is always looking for useful work — seeking to please 193 member states and find a way to collect their dues. But regulating the Internet is one case where Turtle Bay should keep its hands off the wheel.

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Shooting in the Air

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia American Interest
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Russia’s operatives could be taken to the International Criminal Court for their role in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine. Even ICC skeptics in America ought to be open to this approach.
 

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The Digital Age

Secrecy and Accountability in International Justice

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia The Briefing
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

In recent years, consumed by the war against al Qaeda, we have addressed secrecy and accountability in a homegrown way — concerned with information the American executive branch has kept to itself, what was shared with the Congress (though a transcript is often not made at the

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The Briefing: Secrecy and Accountability in International Justice

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia The Briefing
Thursday, January 23, 2014
In recent years, consumed by the war against al Qaeda, we have addressed secrecy and accountability in a homegrown way — concerned with information the American executive branch has kept to itself, what was shared with the Congress (though a transcript is often not made at the instance of both parties), and who should take the blame for things that go wrong.
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The Briefing: President Obama’s Wartime Address

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia Advancing a Free Society
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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President Obama’s Wartime Address

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia The Briefing
Monday, June 10, 2013

Rarely has an American president displayed the capacity to carve memorable phrases out of the oak wood of the English language.  Abraham Lincoln was one exception, reared on Shakespeare and the King James Bible, stump-trained through his peregrinating debates with Stephen A.

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The Briefing: Gaza, the ICC and the Difficulties of American Cohabitation

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, February 4, 2013
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Gaza, the ICC and the Difficulties of American Cohabitation

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia The Briefing
Monday, February 4, 2013

One of the key principles of criminal law is that its substance and reach should be public and transparent.   But that’s not always the case with international criminal law—at least, not when the law is made on the hoof in a diplomatic rush.

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Ban Ki-Moon’s Moment of Truth

by Ruth Wedgwoodvia National Review Online
Friday, August 10, 2012

There seems to be a moment in the life of every U.N. secretary general when he jumps without a parachute from the 38th floor.
 

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