Disarmament and Non-Nuclear Stability in Tomorrow's World

DOI: 10.5564/mjia.v0i14.29Mongolian Journal of International Affairs No.14 2007 pp.96-10

Watching the Watchdog: Security Oversight Law in the New South Africa

This Article attempts to assess the experiences of post-apartheid South Africa in the realm of national security law by examining key issues from constitutional, statutory, and policy perspectives. It observes that South Africans now have a great window of opportunity that allows them to establish the habits and mores necessary to a working security oversight regime, and argues that the way in which South Africa strikes a balance between the requirements of national security and the preservation of personal liberties is of enormous importance to the Republic\u27s future. It further contends that South Africa\u27s choices in this arena could have significant implications and/or hold important lessons for other democracies around the world. The Article concludes by making recommendations for the proper role of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches in South African security oversight law

Quantum energy inequalities in two dimensions

Quantum energy inequalities (QEIs) were established by Flanagan for the massless scalar field on two-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes globally conformal to Minkowski space. We extend his result to all two-dimensional globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetimes and use it to show that flat spacetime QEIs give a good approximation to the curved spacetime results on sampling timescales short in comparison with natural geometric scales. This is relevant to the application of QEIs to constrain exotic spacetime metrics.Comment: 4 pages, REVTeX. This is an expanded version of a portion of gr-qc/0409043. To appear in Phys Rev

Compliance Assessment And Compliance Enforcement: The Challenge Of Nuclear Noncompliance

Good morning. The question posed for this panel, about the relationship between weapons of mass destruction (hereinafter WMD ) related noncompliance findings and what you have tactfully described as exceptional actions by states acting together or acting unilaterally, is a provocative and important one