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JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that while the legal status of the current Middle East conflict embroiling Israel and Lebanon is not easily characterized by traditional definitions of international armed conflict, it falls...

China has rejected a strongly worded UN Security Council official website] resolution responding to North Korea's missile launches earlier this month, instead proposing a mild resolution to encourage North Korea not to launch test-missiles....

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the world's governments Wednesday to ensure the goal of nuclear non-proliferation by devaluing nuclear weapons and strengthening the treaties to limit and control them. Addressing the opening session of the United Nations Conference...

Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Hans Blix, Chairman, June 1, 2006 [independent commission study calling for a total ban on the possession and use of nuclear weapons and...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned in a speech delivered in Japan Thursday that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty faces a twin crisis of "confidence and complicity":The Treaty embodies a contract between the nuclear weapon States and the rest...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday announced the creation of a new National Security Division at the Department of Justice, bringing "under one umbrella the Department's primary national security elements" as authorized by the...

President Bush has signed legislation to renew the USA PATRIOT Act , making permanent several sunsetting provisions in the anti-terror law, extending two provisions until 2009, and incorporating a number of new rights...

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that now that Iran has been referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, some Council action under Chapter VII...

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sunday confirmed the country's ongoing commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to walk away from the treaty on Saturday....

General Sir Michael Rose , a retired British military leader and the former UN military commander in Bosnia, has said that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for making the decision...