A League of Their Own.
Foreign-policy bigwigs on both the left and the right are calling for the establishment of a new League of Democracies," but their proposal is flawed. The league would be a free-standing organization separate from and perhaps eventually usurping the UN. Proposals for the role of the institution ke...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 167; pp. 44 - 50 |
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Foreign Policy
July/August 2008
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