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Basket III commitments. Otherwise, this will be a major partisan issue in the 1976 presidential campaign. I speak as a strong partisan of détente, but to become permanent it requires adherence to the Helsinki commitments and more openness on military and economic arrangements. 17 The Soviets rebuked this without ambiguity: the Final Act had to be understood “in full, in toto, in its full complexity”. 18 Over the following days, Soviet and American delegations tackled the different meanings they attributed to the role of human rights in détente and to the Helsinki
1 Origins and evolution of the vice presidential home state advantage After being elected the first vice president of the United States, John Adams embarked upon a week-long journey from his home in Braintree, Massachusetts, to the nation’s then-capital, New York City, on the picturesque spring day of April 13, 1789. The 54-year old Adams, who had contributed so greatly to the government of his state and the birth of a new nation, was treated to a “hero’s send-off” by the people of his state and his region – punctuated by cannon salutes, municipal awards, and
4 An empirical analysis of the vice presidential home state advantage (state-level data) The perception of a vice presidential home state advantage (HSA) is alive and well in contemporary American politics. But is it a reality? Do vice presidential candidates enjoy an electoral advantage in their home state, after all? How does one measure the vice presidential HSA, anyway? How big (or small) is it, on average? And does the advantage apply to all vice presidential candidates in equal measure, or does it vary depending on candidate and state characteristics? If
5 An empirical analysis of the vice presidential home state advantage (individual-level data) In 2008 Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with a median income of $36,446 – $1,500 lower than the next poorest state (West Virginia), and nearly half that of the wealthiest state (New Hampshire).1 Mississippi was also a strongly Republican state, voting in that year’s presidential election for John McCain by a margin of 13.2% at the same time that his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, won the national popular vote by 7.2%. In fact, the six states with
7 Has the vice presidential home state advantage ever decided an election? On November 3, 2004 – in the afternoon following Election Day – President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and their families, walked onto the stage of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, to thunderous applause and chants of “Four more years!” from their supporters. This was the final Bush-Cheney campaign rally – it was their victory rally. Just ninety minutes earlier, Democratic Party nominee Senator John F. Kerry had conceded defeat in
, this case study is based on the analysis of secondary sources. Basically, two data extracts have been formed: the first is made up of national and international reports and registries and academic studies on displacement; the second is made up of seventeen presidential speeches and five other speeches made by cabinet ministers. This way of working has allowed the combining and comparing of various points of view and a way of exploring the relationship between the Colombian state and the displaced population, which in many cases may be ‘ambiguous or uncertain’ ( Gray
Introduction In October 2016 the New York Review of Books published an article by International Rescue Committee President David Miliband titled ‘The Best Ways to Deal with the Refugee Crisis’. It began with a predictable target. US Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claims about a ‘tremendous flow’ of Syrian refugees making their way to North America were based in ‘myth, not fact’, Miliband wrote ( Miliband, 2016 ). Not only that: they also
a peace settlement ( ibid .: 365–7). Analysing the events in Juba in the immediate aftermath of the showdown between Kiir and Machar on 15 December 2013, Human Rights Watch pointed to the Presidential Guard’s – recruited among the President’s Dinka community – mass targeting of Nuer civilians, including public figures, for arrest and execution in the capital city as playing a crucial role in the rapid mobilisation of Nuer on the opposition’s side in Unity and Upper Nile
decorated living Brazilian diplomat. As we began discussing international affairs and strategy, Amorim’s speech assumed a calm, professorial cadence. ‘Global disorder’ undermines international cooperation, he suggested soberly. And there is a need to rescue human rights discourse, despite the hypocrisy and selectivity of its liberal proponents. Amorim leant forward when I brought up Brazil’s recent withdrawal from the world stage. As foreign minister throughout the two presidential terms of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, from 2003 to 2011, he guided
, Twitter, WhatsApp and other media platforms are all under increasing pressure to prevent harmful disinformation from circulating on their platforms. It is vital that these massive organisations start to tackle the problem. But there are also steps that researchers, journalists and humanitarians can take. The first priority is further research. Although fake news has dominated public debate, conference programming and presidential tweets for some time, we have relatively little empirical data about its reach or impact. A number of countries have