Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 9/2013:
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Review
Steffen Wippel, Wirtschaft, Politik und Raum: Territoriale und regionale Prozesse in der westlichen Sahara (2012)
(Laurence Marfaing)
With or against us
Sunday, August 18, 2013 – 21:51
It’s trite but worth remembering that an excellent barometer of political freedom is how a regime treats the media. Deposed President Mohamed Morsi attempted to shut critics up through clumsy litigation – charges of insulting him, or the judiciary and so on. It was a classic Hosni Mubarak technique but Morsi used it far more frequently. Another technique was tacitly approving or at least not doing anything when Salafi preacher Hazem Salah Abou Ismail and friends set up shop outside the Media Production City in October 6 City, in order to intimidate Lamis al-Hadidi and other vocally anti-Brotherhood presenters beyond state control.
18. August 2013
in Flugblatt
Veröffentlicht auf arbeitermacht
Offizielle Zahlen sprechen von über 500 Menschen, die beim Versuch der ägyptischen Generäle, den Protest der Muslimbrüder niederzuwerfen, massakriert wurden. Ihr Protest richtet sich gegen den Militärputsch am 3. Juli, durch welchen ihr Präsident, Mohamed Mursi, abgesetzt und verhaftet worden war. Die Muslimbrüder sprechen sogar von tausenden Toten. Das Militär bzw. das Präsidialamt verhängte außerdem einen einmonatigen Ausnahmezustand.
Mann, Itamar
Dialectic of Transnationalism: Unauthorized Migration and Human Rights, 1993-2013 (August 1, 2013)
Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. 2, Summer 2013.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2308108
Abstract: „Systematic violations of the rights of unauthorized migrants on the fault lines between developed and developing countries expose the dialectic of transnationalism, a dynamic that occurs when both policy and judicial review go transnational. Three concurrent patterns define the dialectic: First, executive and judi- cial networks are bifurcated from each other, producing significant policies beyond the reach of judiciaries. Second, judiciaries exacerbate their bifurcation from policymaking through transnational decisions. Third, transnational law replaces absolute legal rules with pragmatic problem solving, eroding the normative basis of human rights. Although these patterns seem to show that the violations are an intractable feature of contemporary international law, this Article proposes countering them with “critical absolutism.”
This approach identifies opportunities in which the dialectic can be challenged by presenting states with an existential dilemma: either treat people as humans and risk changing who you are (in terms of the composition of your population), or give up human rights and risk changing who you are (in terms of your constitutive commitments).“
Weekend Edition July 19-21, 2013
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/19/
Exposing the Hypocrisy of ElBaradei and His Liberal Elites
The Grand Scam: Spinning Egypt’s Military Coup
by ESAM AL-AMIN
Every coup d’état in history begins with a military General announcing the overthrow and arrest of the country’s leader, the suspension of the constitution, and the dissolution of the legislature. If people resist, it turns bloody. Egypt is no exception.
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Fundamental rights at Europe’s southern sea borders
This FRA report examines the conditions at Europe’s southern sea borders with respect to the most fundamental rights of a person, the right to life and the right not to be sent back to torture, persecution or inhuman treatment. It looks at sea border surveillance and disembarkation procedures, as well as general issues such as European Union (EU) policy, training and Frontex-coordinated operations, and examines practices across the EU Member States researched – Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain. By mapping the fundamental rights challenges at Europe’s southern sea borders and by identifying promising practices, this report is intended to offer advice to EU policy makers as well as practitioners at both the EU and Member
Marching in Circles: Egypt’s Dangerous Second Transition
OVERVIEW
Nearly two-and-half years after Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow, Egypt is embarking on a transition in many ways disturbingly like the one it just experienced – only with different actors at the helm and far more fraught and violent.
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