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ADVOCATES OF A PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COURT TO TRY PERPETRATORS OF WAR CRIMES AND OTHER "CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY" ACHIEVED A MAJOR SUCCESS IN JULY 1997 WITH THE ADOPTION OF A MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT CALLED "THE STATUTE OF ROME." THIS STATUTE ESTABLISHES BOTH SUBSTANTIVE PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CREATES NEW INSTITUTIONS AND PROCEDURES TO ADJUDICATE THESE PRINCIPLES. THIS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, HOWEVER, IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. THEREFORE, U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ICC SHOULD BE THE "THREE NO'S": NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT, NO COLLABORATION, AND NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTS TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. THE U.S. HAS MANY ALTERNATIVE FOREIGN POLICY INSTRUMENTS TO UTILIZE THAT ARE FULLY CONSISTENT WITH ITS NATIONAL INTERESTS, LEAVING THE ICC TO THE OBSCURITY IT SO DESERVES.

Introduction: undertheorized political problems in the founding democratization literature / Alfred Stepan -- Civil society, Islam, and ethnocommunal conflict / Ashutosh Varshney -- Debating secession peacefully and democratically: the case of Canada / Richard Simeon -- The new "double challenge": democratic control and efficacy of military, police, and intelligence / Felipe Ag(c)ơero -- Beyond threats to democracy from the armed forces, police, and intelligence: the Spanish case / Narc(c)Ưs Serra -- Latin America's interrupted presidencies: alternatives? / Arturo Valenzuela -- The predicament of semi-presidentialism / Timothy J. Colton and Cindy Skach -- Conclusion: the way forward / Fernando Henrique Cardoso

The article discusses the unfavourable ecological situation in China and what is being done to protect the environment. The author points out that open discussions of the ecological situation in the country began only ten years ago. It is only in the last decade, a decade of reforms, that things have begun to change in respect of the ecological problems. The mixed impact of the economic reform on the environment. The states of water ressources, air environment and land ressources are briefly discussed. (DÜI-Sen)