Afghan Peace Deal 2020: Possible Scenarios and Outcomes

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
Farhan Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Us History ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
The Us ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eventual Outcome

After much deliberations and delays, the US-Taliban peace deal was finally inked on February 29th, 2020 (Asia, 2020). The long-awaited peace deal though officially considered as the end of the longest war in US history but does not seem likely to last long. The peace deal focuses on much-debated vital areas such as withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in phases (in 14 months); Taliban not to allow any Al-Qaeda presence or not to provide safe havens to Islamist terrorist groups in Afghanistan; talks between Taliban and Afghan government to begin soon; and, lifting of economic sanctions on the Taliban (US State Department, 2020). Scholars and researchers on the subject matter issues such as counter- terrorism, Afghanistan conflict, and peace negotiations are divided on the eventual outcome of this deal. Nonetheless, there are high hopes considering the success of this deal. The country has been facing the menace of terrorism and consecutive political violence since 1979, making it one of the oldest ongoing conflicts. Probably, the Afghans have suffered more than any other nation during civil wars, coups/revolutions, foreign invasions, Islamist extremist movements and insurgencies.

scholarly journals SCALIA, HAMDAN AND THE PRINCIPLES OF SUBJECT MATTER RECUSAL

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Brian Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Natural Justice ◽  
Open Mind ◽  
The Us ◽  
Normative Basis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Constitutional Adjudication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Level

The point of judicial recusal is at once obvious and elusive.  The idea of a partial judge immediately grates on our sense of fairness.  Almost invariably, the normative basis of judicial impartiality is traced to what is described as ‘natural justice’;1 specifically the celebrated maxims of nemo iudex in causa sua2 and audi alteram partem.3  But the relationship of this moral bedrock to the exigencies and settled practices of constitutional adjudication is far from straightforward.  This article will focus on the implications of the latter principle – perhaps best translated as a standard of judicial open-mindedness regarding the subject matter of a dispute.  Despite its moral immediacy, there are serious theoretical objections, best described as ‘realist,’ to an expansive conception of judicial open-mindedness.  Likewise, at a practical level, the institution of the dissenting opinion can be seen as diluting the duty to keep an open mind, at least in jurisdictions such as the US where judges are expected to exhibit relatively little deference towards previous decisions in which they were outvoted.

Paris Embraces Modern Art – But Not in Court: Opinion on the Cour d’Appel de Paris Decision – Jeff Koons v Franck Davidovici

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Sutterer
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Traditional Notion ◽  
The Us ◽  
Exceptions And Limitations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Jeff Koons ◽  
Court Of Appeal

Abstract In February 2021 the Paris Court of Appeal (Cour d’appel de Paris) rendered a decision against the US artist Jeff Koons, holding that he had infringed copyright relating to an advertisement photography that was more than 30 years old. Jeff Koons is famous for his Neo-pop Appropriation art – kitsch for some, a provocative breach with the traditional notion of art for others. It was not the first time Koons has had to defend his work in court. The French decision is particularly interesting, however, as it shows a very narrow understanding of the copyright exceptions. It is an illustrative example of the issues resulting from CJEU’s approach in Pelham, Spiegel Online and Funke Medien, where the Court held that once the recognisability of original elements has been established, the only way out of the infringement leads through the formal exceptions and limitations of the InfoSoc Directive. Based on the decision, I will reflect on the openness of copyright for art-specific forms of referencing and in particular analyse the subject matter and scope of the parody exception and contrast it with less formal approaches to consider new creative elements. I will also analyse the question of applicable law in internet cases.

scholarly journals Recognition and Enforcement of Annulled Foreign Arbitral Awards in the Country of Origin under the 1958 New York Convention: the US and French Approaches

Teisė ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
Yunus Emre Ay
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Relevant Article ◽  
National Courts ◽  
The Us ◽  
Recognition And Enforcement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New York Convention

The recognition and enforcement of annulled foreign arbitral awards in the country of origin under the 1958 New York Convention is subject to doctrinal discussions. A relevant article of the1958 New York Convention become the subject matter of many cases in some large economies. These cases and doctrinal views are very important for other countries that did not host such a case before their national courts. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the relevant article of the 1958 New York Convention and compare delocalization and territorial theories.

scholarly journals Autofiction and Film: Archival Practices in Post-millennial Documentary Cinema in Argentina and Spain

2022 ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
Anna Forné ◽  
Patricia López-Gay
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Futures Market ◽  
Broken Windows ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Archival Practices

AbstractThis chapter examines three recent autofictional documentaries produced in Argentina and Spain—Albertina Carri’s Cuatreros (Rustlers), Mercedes Álvarez’s Mercado de futuros (Futures Market), and Víctor Erice’s Vidros partidos (Broken Windows)—which share a distinctive “archival impulse.” These films propose a meaning in a specific political sense which we read in relation to the contexts of the Iberian financial crisis and the memories of political violence during the last dictatorship in Argentina. We address the autofictional strategies through which the filmmakers “re-stage” the archive by adopting an aesthetics of ambiguity that unsettles the modern paradigm of the archive as static evidence of a given reality, revolving instead around a conception of the archive as a self-reflective process that becomes the subject matter in its own right.

scholarly journals The Role of Shariah Law in Islamic Financial Contracts in the UK and the US: A Comparative Analysis

ICR Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-255
Author(s):  
Apnizan Abdullah ◽  
Shahrul Mizan Ismail ◽  
Halila Faiza Zainal Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Structure ◽  
Financial Contracts ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

The adoption of the doctrine of secularism in the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK) is clear. Secularism separates human activities in the public sphere from religion. In Western countries, the development of Islamic finance, which stands on the principles of Shariah, could be impeded due to this doctrine. This is because, in Islam, religion is part and parcel of human life. Unlike the US, the UK has made certain efforts to accommodate Islamic finance needs by amending its regulatory structure. Adequate regulatory set ups for Islamic finance in both countries are very crucial, particularly in the UK, since its government aims to promote London as the hub for Islamic finance in Europe. Therefore, in view of the importance of these two giant financial jurisdictions, this study aims to provide a comparative legal analysis of the position of Shariah in Islamic financial contracts in the UK and the US. In particular, this study highlights the legal and judicial treatments made by the courts in both countries pertaining to the subject matter. This study concludes by highlighting the present position of the subject matter.

scholarly journals The US National Efforts to Counter Domestic Terrorism: Progress and Controversy

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Faruq Arjuna Hendroy
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
The Us ◽  
Terrorism Threat ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
The U.S

The article examines the increasing domestic terrorism threat within the U.S. borders and how the U.S. government responded to it. The robust maneuver of the U.S. ledcoalition in the Middle East to coercively hunt down the terrorist groups does not fully stop them from posing the threat. Ironically, the terrorist groups direct their attacks to the U.S. homeland through their small networks. It is not difcult to build networks in the U.S. homeland, since the the advance of millennium technology enables them to radicalize people from long distance. The U.S. surely concerns about the increasing number of terrorist attacks within its borders, that it recently issued a set of national counter-terrorism strategy combining both coercive and soft approach. However, the approval of discriminatory and controversial travel ban policy was believed to hamper the existing national strategy, mistarget the main causes, and create new problems.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

The Taxonomic Structuring of Medical Information and its Usefulness in this Form

1965 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Zinsser
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Diagnostic Strategy ◽  
Programmed Instruction ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Subject

An outline has been presented in historical fashion of the steps devised to organize the central core of medical information allowing the subject matter, the patient, to define the nature and the progression of the diseases from which he suffers, with and without therapy; and approaches have been made to organize this information in such fashion as to align the definitions in orderly fashion to teach both diagnostic strategy and the content of the diseases by programmed instruction.

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