Episode 20: Authoritarian International Law?
Foreign Policy and International Law
2019 Midyear Meeting - Keynote Concluding Remarks
At the Society's November 2019 Midyear Meeting, Blanca Montejo, United Nations Security Council Affairs Division presented a keynote address at the end of the Practitioners’ Forum which provided an overview of the work of the U.N. Security Council and its positive impact on international law. Her poignant comments were worth sharing with those who could not be at the meeting. An updated version of her speech follows.
Lingering Gulf Dispute Gives Rise to Multi-Forum Legal Proceedings
Accusations of foreign interference in domestic affairs was a dominant theme throughout the 2010s. This was no less true in the Persian Gulf. Beginning in 2013, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain charged neighboring Qatar with meddling in their internal affairs and other infractions to their sovereignty. But what began as a quiet disagreement among allies burst onto global headlines when in 2017 the four countries abruptly terminated their diplomatic and economic relations with Qatar.
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Episode 17: Can the US Keep Iran’s Foreign Minister Out of the UN? The Law of Visa Denials--with Larry Johnson, former Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs at the UN