Australia must play a more constructive role in the Middle East, argues Ben Saul.

Papers and webcasts from this conference, held on 10 November 2003, are available online. Speakers included the federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock; the NSW Police Minister, John Watkins; Jenny Hocking from the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University; Senator John Faulkner, leader of the Opposition in the Senate; Devika Hovell, lecturer in law at...

In this second publication in the Melbourne Asia Policy Paper series, Professor Tim McCormack examines the potential role of the new International Criminal Court in The Hague for enforcing international criminal law in the Asia Pacific region in the new post-9/11 global climate. Professor McCormack is the Foundation Australian Red Cross Professor of International Humanitarian...

This paper argues that to invoke the term "war" does not in itself give the United States, or any other country, belligerent rights to attack terrorists wherever they may be found.

As a consequence of United Nations Security Council resolutions passed after the 1990-91 Gulf war, Iraq is required by international law to renounce weapons of mass destruction and submit to verification inspections by United Nations agencies. It is yet to be determined whether Iraq still retains these weapons, although many western governments maintain that it...