Legal or Illegal: Does the UN Oversimplify War in a Dangerous World?

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Is the UN Charter governing war too rigid? It treats very different conflicts the same under a simple legal-or-illegal standard. Does it fail to account for the real moral and strategic differences between wars? To talk about this Evan is joined by Nathan Greenfield, author, North American correspondent for University World News, visiting professor of history at the Kyiv School of Economics in Kyiv, Ukraine.
9 Mar 10AM English South Africa News Commentary

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