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Ausgehend von der Fragestellung, weshalb die Beziehungen zwischen Saudi-Arabien und den USA aus dem Blickfeld des öffentlichen Interesses geraten sind, wird der Stand der Beziehungen im Kontext der gemeinsamen Interessen und Divergenzen sowie der relevanten politischen Entwicklungen in der Region (u.a. Libanonkrise, Golfkrieg, Golfsicherheitsrat) seit 1973 beleuchtet. (DÜI-Hns)

The contemporary international law of war is torn between the pressure to incorporate a doctrine to legitimize limited armed humanitarian intervention and its traditional concerns for nations' sovereignty. Especially because of its organic, interconnected nature, the theoretical tradition of just war theory, when concretized through explicit linkage to specific standards of contemporary human rights law, offers an approach to resolving this dilemma that does not unduly privilege war-making. This approach is both consistent with international law and useful as an example of the relevance of drawing on humanistic reasoning about justice in international jurisprudence. The argument is illustrated by reference to the cases of the failure of humanitarian intervention in Rwanda in 1994, the armed intervention in Kosovo in 1999 and the US-led wars in Iraq in 1991 and 2003.

This article applies a concept from the political science & sociological theory of social movements to the comparative study of indigenous human rights activism in two North African countries in the 1980s & 1990s. Specifically, the idea of cultural framing is used to explicate why social mobilization around the rhetoric of human rights was most successful in Tunisia & Morocco during a particular period. Drawing on interviews, documents, & secondary material about a prominent human rights movement in each society, the study argues that transnational human rights norms were adapted for local use in these two Arab Islamic societies with fairly little difficulty. The article concludes with discussion of the connection of human rights activism in each country & the divergent path each has taken with respect to contemporary political liberalization. Adapted from the source document.

Der Autor fragt nach den Gründen für die außerordentliche Stabilität des nichtdemokratischen marokkanischen Regimes und führt als mögliche Erklärung die erfolgreichen Bemühungen des Königshauses an, durch "Manipulation und Monopolisierung der politischen Kultur" den Wunsch der Bürger nach politischer Mitwirkung in Gleichgültigkeit umzuwandeln. Er belegt seine These, indem er zwei Ereignisse analysiert: den sogenannten Grünen Marsch von 1975 und den Mißtrauensantrag, den die Opposition 1990 - erfolglos - im Parlament einbrachte. (DÜI-Cls)