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Argues that Westphalian sovereignty, which refers to the capacity of national authorities to exercise effective internal control, is a sham because it is so often violated through conventions, contracts, coercion, and imposition. Summary in English p. 255.

Com a finalidade de reinserir Cuba na discussao dos problemas internacionais, publicam-se nesta secao tres documentos. O primeiro e um artigo de um sociologo cubano sobre as transformacoes que estao ocorrendo na economia e na sociedade cubanas e sobre as suas implicacoes. O segundo documento e um pronunciamento do arcebispo de Boston a proposito da visita do Papa a Cuba, e que contem uma lucida critica aos que pretendem impor uma mudanca politica no pais "de fora para dentro". O terceiro documento, finalmente, e um artigo solicitado ao embaixador de Cuba no Brasil sobre a posicao da ilha no cenario internacional e que reflete, como nao poderia deixar de ser, a posicao oficial dos dirigentes cubanos. (Polit Externa/DÜI)

Discusses the judgement of General Augusto Pinochet and the jurisdiction of Spain over crimes of genocide, terrorism, and torture committed in Argentina and Chile in relation to questions of state sovereignty and diplomatic immunity under international law.

The case of Western Sahara shows how the United Nations operates in the area of conflict resolution. In its efforts to reach an agreement, the United Nations are hostage to contrasting & multidimensional logics & interests which in turn make it very difficult to impose a settlement that is in accordance with international law. Adapted from the source document.

The contemporary debate in the theory of international relations is marked by two perspectives: on the one hand the perspective of political realism that conceives of peace as an inaccessible ideal and war as a necessary means for the acquisition and maintenance of power; and on the other hand the perspective of normativism or idealism that thinks the end (telos) of international relations beyond the conflicts of interest and the struggle for power. The first perspective deals with international relations at the level of being (of what is), the second at the level of ought (normative level). In view of this scenario, our idea in this article is to approach the problem of war and peace from an interdisciplinary study through contributions from Kant's Public International Law and Philosophy. In a first moment we will analyze the paradox of the war, then the role of the Public International Law for the problematic of the peace, and finally the contributions of Kant for the normative redefinition of the international right from his republican project of the league of peace (foedus pacificum).

This article examines the implications of international intervention against piracy off the coast of Somalia backed by several Security Council resolutions since 2008. Based on a seminal academic debate generically known as naval peacekeeping, the article argues that the intervention against Somali piracy is the empirical realization of an autonomous concept of peacekeeping at sea, disconnected from the concepts usually applied to the land-based UN peace operations framework. Adapted from the source document.