The FPA-o-sphere has been rife with Law and Security Strategy posts this week. Here are some good ones to check out:
1) As the Transitional States Blog reports, the U.S. Senate is considering a resolution condemning the 1915-1916 Turkish mass expulsions of Armenians as genocide. Will this scuttle the Turkish-Armenian peace process? Read the whole thing here.
2) Kenya has drafted a new constitution for itself. But will it prevent future incidents like the outbreak of political violence following its 2007 election? The Africa Blog writes about it here.
3) The America in Transition Blog writes of the opposition to to Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court:
These arguments have considerable weight, but nothing outweighs the importance of seeing justice done properly. There is something reassuring in having the full force and transparency of the U.S. criminal justice system applied to this most heinous of terrorist attacks/crimes. After the repeated water boarding of KSM and years of detention at Guantanamo, there will finally be an opportunity to apply to this case unambiguous traditions of jurisprudence that have been fashioned over centuries, rather than procedures defined in moments of national stress.
Read the whole thing here.
4) If the international community doesn’t take action on climate change next month in Copenhagen, will it be “the longest and most global suicide note in history”? Read the Climate Change Blog to find out.
5) Is the U.S. moving closer toward the International Criminal Court? Would this be a good thing? Read some analysis at the Human Rights Blog.
6) The Bangladesh Blog writes about a possibly cathartic, possibly instability-provoking Bangladeshi Supreme Court decision here.
7) And the U.S. Role in the World Blog writes about Obama grappling with human rights in China.
This all reminds me of the Machiavelli quote I cited in my first post here:
[T]here are two ways of fighting: by law or by force. The first way is natural to men, and the second to beasts. But as the first way often proves inadequate one must needs have recourse to the second. So a prince must understand how to make a nice use of the beast and the man.
