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Cold War I, Post-Cold War, and Cold War II: The Overarching Contexts for Peacekeeping, Human Rights, and NATO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Michael Doyle
Michael Doyle*
Affiliation:
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia Law School.
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Peacekeeping, human rights, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have flourished in complementary contrast with each other. Their relationship has reflected the constraints and opportunities provided by three geopolitical eras since World War II. The first (the first Cold War) began in about 1948 and lasted until 1988; the second (the Post-Cold War Liberal Primacy) ran from 1989 to around 2012; finally, since 2012 the world has been threatened with the emergence of a second Cold War.

Type
Challenges and Prospects for International Peace and Security: Un Peacekeeping, Nato, and the Udhr at 70
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 113 , 2019 , pp. 31 - 34
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Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 28, 2019, by its moderator Diane Marie Amann of the University of Georgia School of Law, who introduced the panelists: Steven Hill of the NATO Office of Legal Affairs; Michael Doyle of Columbia University; Bruce Oswald of the University of Melbourne Law School; and Rita Siemion of Human Rights First.

I thank Nathan Feldman for his assistance and suggestions in preparing this draft.

References

1 Gorbachev Address to the United Nations General Assembly (Dec. 7, 1988), available at https://www.c-span.org/video/?5292-1/gorbachev-united-nations.

2 I plan to address these themes in my forthcoming book: Cold Peace. What follows in this section draws from arguments that are more thoroughly developed there.

3 Previous U.S. administrations sometimes engaged in torture while denying that what they were doing was “torture.” See, e.g., Kim Lane Scheppele, Law in a Time of Emergency: States of Exception and the Temptations of 9/11, 6 U. Penn. J. Const. L. 1001 (2004).

4 Nicholas Burns & Douglas Lute, NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis 13 (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Report, Feb. 2019).