Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

Americans, Europeans to debate
right to intervene in Iraq

Americans and Europeans on both sides of the debate over the legitimacy of the war in Iraq, unilateral intervention and the democratization of the region will share their views in a student Town Hall meeting on campus on Thursday, April 29.

The meeting, titled "Transatlantic Perspectives on Intervention," is designed to educate students from Yale, the United States Military Academy, City College of New York and other universities on foreign policy issues. Interested members of the public are also invited to attend.

The event, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, International Security Studies at Yale and the Law School, will consist of three panel discussions. These will explore the morality and efficacy of Western military action in the developing world; the methods for increasing the welfare of citizens of the world; and global civil rights.

"Transatlantic relations, historically complex diplomatically and politically, are a highly pressing matter vis-à-vis the War on Terror and the occupation/reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan," write the organizers. "Each panel [in this event] will feature Americans and Europeans, both on the right and on the left, to give a broad concept of the debate."

Registration for the Town Hall meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St., where all panel discussions will take place. The first panel will begin at 10 a.m. with a discussion on "Military Intervention Outside of the U.S./E.U." Moderating the discussion, which will be followed by an hour-long question-and-answer session, will be Charles Hill, diplomat-in-residence at Yale.

The second panel, titled "Non-Military Intervention Outside of the U.S./E.U." will begin at 1:15 p.m. Michael Reisman, the Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law, will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by an hour-long question-and-answer session.

The third panel, on "The Rights of U.S. and E.U. Citizens: A Worldwide Legal Framework?" will begin at 3:30 p.m. and will be moderated by Harold Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and dean-elect of the Law School. This event, too, will be followed by an hour-long question-and-answer session.

Panelists include Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., U.S. assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs; A. Elizabeth Jones, U.S. assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; Jones Parry, the British ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.); Adamantios Vasilakis, the Greek ambassador to the U.N.; Kishore Mahbubami, the Singaporean ambassador to the U.N.; Pierre Shori, the Swedish ambassador to the U.N.; Louise Arbor, U.N. high commissioner of human rights; Andrew Natsios, an administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development; Jim Cloos, director of transatlantic relations in Latin America and the U.N. and of human rights for the Council of the E.U.; Eason Jordan, executive vice president and chief news executive for CNN; and Tom Parker, a former investigator for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal.

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