...ian taxpayers, the First Nations of British Columbia hold but one bargaining chip: un-extinguished claims to Canadian lands. This could be their chance to take some of that land back. However, the current framework for treaty negotiations asks First Nations to exchange their rights and entitlements as sovereign nations for land and money. In this inequitable deal, Canada would settle the ongoing “Indian problem” once and for all, while First Nati...
...popularity with the American people has never left him. Nevertheless, we should not forget that national security and foreign policy can play a decisive role in domestic politics – often at the most unexpected times. Nuclear negotiations with Iran and a provocative rocket launch by North Korea, combined with the broader shifts taking place in global power politics, should serve as a reminder that while President Obama is in good shape for the ti...
In light of the new round of talks with Iran that began yesterday in Moscow, former ambassador and United States diplomat Dennis Ross published a short piece in The New Republic that suggests that the P5+1, a coalition of the five members of the UN security council and Germany, who are joined in diplomatic efforts related to Iran’s nuclear program, adopt a new strategy in their negotiations. “The Iranian nuclear program is approaching what the I...
...o divisive posturing and headline-grabbing criticism of each other’s leaders. While this administration has laudably eased restrictions for travel and remittances to Cuba, it has failed to make good on its promises to restore negotiations with the receptive Cuban regime. In 2009, Cuban President Raúl Castro, in 2009, went so far as to say, “we are willing to discuss everything… We could be wrong, we admit it.” But Cuba-US diplomatic relations hav...
With every new semester comes the opportunity for a fresh beginning. But as the Palestinian Authority awaits the Security Council vote on its third bid for statehood, any opportunity for novel approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has disappeared from the world stage. The problem: Palestine’s bid for statehood is a blatant attempt to avoid negotiations. Not only does statehood violate earlier agreements, but is also a tremendous steps b...
...e its testing” and future testing would be “absolutely necessary for the well-being of all the people of this world.” This unilateral control over policy in the Marshall Islands precluded the possibility of fair and equitable negotiations about how to adequately compensate the Marshallese for their suffering. Estimates suggest that only $350 million in the 50 years after the nuclear testing has been provided as compensation for the nuclear testin...
...was not at all conceived by the European Union – rather, it was the product of talks between the United States and Japan. As talks progressed, the first European body (read: the first organization from Europe at all) to enter negotiations was the European Commission, seeking a mandate from the European Parliament to negotiate the treaty. Lest any American or otherwise non-European readership confuse the numerous and similarly named organs of the...
...th Koreans from entering Kaesong Industrial Complex—a joint industrial region and a symbol of cooperation articulated by former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung’s “Sunshine Policy.” In addition, North Korea has no plan for negotiations with the U.S. over their nuclear weapons program. In response, the U.S. has organized ongoing joint military exercises in South Korea positioning its presence in respective locations and deploying stealth fight...
...a free trade area—the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP). The potential seems limitless: Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Chile, Peru, and the United States have already engaged in negotiations. At the APEC Summit, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made the stunning announcement that Japan would also take a seat at the negotiating table. It is also highly likely that other economic heavyweights—li...
This week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran asserted that Iran was ready for negotiations on its nuclear (weapons) program. Indeed, he insisted that it always had been, and that European and American declarations to the contrary were, in fact, “excuses.” These remarks were seen as a response to the EU’s exhortations that Iran “go back to negotiations” that were coupled with sanctions on Iranian oil. It is still unclear whether Iran is signa...
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