n the history of liberalism, Montesquieu, who died two hundred and fifty years ago, is an iconic figure. Montesquieu is cited as the source of the idea of checks and balances, or separation of powers, and thus as an intellectual inspiration of the American founding. Among liberal internationalists, Montesquieu is known above all for the notion that international trade leads to peace among natio...

india and zionist regime relationships have had many ups and downs over the past six decades. indians have been among the supporters of arabs for a long time and had been backing the palestinian issue long before the partition plan of palestine. india had proved no tendency to improve its relationship with israel regardless of jews and the occupier government‘s massive efforts over four decades...

after the cold war, the concept of international security underwent a modification. among the most important components of such a transformation, the consolidation of ‘environmental security’, a topic in international security, can be taken into account. environmental security deal with threats that are not only the unintentional result of social and economic activities but are very slow in...

Branches of international law arise mainly as a result the following factors: 1) complications legal consciousness (international human rightslaw, security law, environmental criminal etc.) and 2) technological progress air, space, nuclear relevant innovations in maritime etc.). Under influence same factors, new institutions are formed within existing branches (responsibility for crimes, prohib...

This Article reviews the principal means of IFI peace-building and offers several proposals to enhance the effectiveness of those means. Focusing primarily on the World Bank Group and the IMF, this Article posits that profound changes are necessary if the Bretton Woods institutions are to realize their potential as leaders in the international peace process. Part I of this Article provides a br...

It has recently been argued that apparent peace between democracies may be the result of political similarity rather than joint democracy, and that there may exist an “autocratic peace” which is similar to the democratic peace. If political similarity generally is the cause of peace rather than joint democracy specifically, then the democratic peace is merely a statistical artifact that follows...

About International Alert International Alert is a 26-year old independent peacebuilding organisation. We work with people who are directly affected by violent conflict to improve their prospects of peace. And we seek to influence the policies and ways of working of governments, international organisations like the UN and multinational companies, to reduce conflict risk and increase the prospec...

A conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace was held by the Maharishi International University (MIU) Institute of World Peace at MIU in the Spring of 1991.1 A common theme in the conference was that the basic structure and dynamics of society must change in order to achieve a stable world peace. The speakers described a variety of ways in which a stable world peace was being pur...