Irrelevance of internal law

Some have suggested that the Iraq war proved the UN s irrelevance.

Overhauling Secretariat structures and processes to reduce duplication, waste, and irrelevance? Forget it.

EU lethargy and growing irrelevance in global public affairs owes much to Eurocentric political atavism.

He warned that if Europe s attitude to NATO did not change, the Alliance would degenerate into collective military irrelevance.

Tribunals established within PTAs would take over the business, leading to the atrophy, and eventual irrelevance, of the DSM.

For an institution that seemed on the verge of irrelevance not too long ago, this is quite a transformation.

The threat of irrelevance is understood by leading statesmen, who have committed themselves to putting their shoulders to the wheel.

China was already accustomed to rapacious Western powers squabbling over its riches, but had remained self confident in the knowledge of these powers irrelevance.

Now, with countless private interest groups trying to water it down into irrelevance, the battle will be firmly on the EU s agenda in 2006.

It was just a few months ago that this important but unloved institution, a landmark of post war global economic arrangements, seemed destined to irrelevance.

This amounts to what we might call an irrelevance defense Finance theorists cannot be held responsible, since no one in the real world pays attention to them!

With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared.

Some American analysts, such as Edward Luttwak, have concluded that Russia s invasion of Georgia proves the irrelevance of soft power, and the dominance of hard military power.

We the people have become inured to our own irrelevance when it comes to doing anything significant about anything that matters concerning governance, beyond waiting another four years.

According to the socialist sociologist Francisco de Oliveira, the coldness of the electoral landscape is closely related to one reality the irrelevance of politics due to its financiarisation .

Just when, as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament gains more power than it has ever had, the risk of it being condemned to irrelevance is greatest.

If Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance fail to devise complementary integration strategies, other countries may well decide that it is worth cooperating only with the Alliance, leaving Mercosur to fade into irrelevance.

Nevertheless, it seems safe to say that Dassault and France will probably win the contract, and that this will be seen as a milestone on the road to US irrelevance in South America.

Just a short time ago, the IMF seemed relegated to a sustained period of irrelevance as it failed to modernize either its euro centric political representation or its arcane government to government lending facilities.

If new members and regions are not offered a seat at the table, the Council will face increasing irrelevance and the world, more than ever in need of effective conflict resolution, will be far worse off.

The Treaty had worked well for 35 years, but unless it was regarded as part of a living, dynamic regime, capable of evolving to match changing realities, it would fade into irrelevance, leaving the world vulnerable and unprotected.

EU lethargy and growing irrelevance in global public affairs owes much to Eurocentric political atavism. One potential benefit of the Copenhagen debacle could be that it forces the Union to wake up to the new world of the twenty first century.

Any further impasse any further inaction on the part of the Council, two months after the report of the Commission of Inquiry, would have reduced this august body to a nadir of irrelevance with regard to ending impunity and responding to the protection of human rights and humanitarian law.

Consequently, trafficking in persons needs to be seen and treated accordingly in its entirety as an activity commencing through the commission of certain defined acts but also resulting in an exploitative purpose, while encompassing the means involved for gaining control over the victim, which are crucial to ascertaining the irrelevance of his or her consent.

The Conference of the Parties may wish to consider practical issues in relation to the requirements of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol related to the definition of trafficking in persons, such as the irrelevance of the consent of the victims when the listed means of trafficking were used or the non consideration of such means when children are trafficked.