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22 Feb 2012

Editor's Note: The article below has been retained as a guide to the debates that preceded further NATO expansion in 2004 (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania...

This House opposes U.S. hegemonic military power

22 Feb 2012

During the Cold War Era, the United States vastly expanded its military capacity; today, the US military vastly outstrips any other military in the world. For...

This House would disband NATO

21 Feb 2012

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, is a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. It was founded in 1949 by twelve Allied countries...

This House would extend NATO membership to Georgia and Ukraine

20 Feb 2012

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded in 1949 as a political and military alliance binding western European democracies such as Britain and France...

This House would create a single European Union army

18 Feb 2012

In recent years, there has been much discussion regarding the concept of a European Defence Force (sometimes referred to as the “Euro Corps” or EDF). Such a...

This House believes NATO countries and the government of Afghanistan should negotiate a power-sharing deal with the Taliban.

17 Feb 2012

The Taliban first emerged in an organized form in 1994, from the confusion of twenty years of civil war in Afghanistan. They presented themselves as an...

This House believes the United Nations has a responsibility to protect.

26 Jan 2012

Throughout the 1990s, humanitarian disasters and perceived United Nations' failures in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo led to considerable discussion...

This House believes democracy can be built as a result of interventions

26 Jan 2012

Whether it takes the form of imperialism or the neoconservative movement, democratic countries have long seen it in their duty to “civilize” and...