True or False Warning? The United Nations and Threats to Namibia's Independence, 1989
Dr. A. Walter Dorn is Professor of Defence Studies at Canada’s Royal Military College and the Canadian Forces College, where he has been teaching since 2000. He earned his bachelor of science and master of sciences, as well as his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, which deals with chemical sensing for arms control, at the University of Toronto. Earlier, Dr. Dorn was a program coordinator for the Parliamentarians for Global Action, a senior research scientist and visiting scholar at the University of New Mexico and the Sandia National Laboratories, and a senior research fellow and visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development and its Peace Studies Program. Interviewed frequently in the print and electronic media, he is the author of Keeping Watch: Monitoring, Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2011).
Intelligence and peacekeeping: The UN operation in the Congo, 1960–64
Effective peacekeeping requires the proactive acquisition and prudent analysis of information about conditions within the mission area. This is especially true if the operation is conducted in a hazardous and unpredictable environment and the lives of peacekeepers are threatened, as was the case with the UN operation in the Congo (ONUC). A Military Information Branch (MIB) was established as part of ONUC to enhance the security of UN personnel, to support specific operations, to warn of outbreaks of conflict and to estimate outside interference (for example, the importation of armaments). The MIB employed signals intelligence using a wireless message interception system, photographic intelligence using airplanes equipped for the purpose, and human intelligence from lawful interrogations of prisoners and informants. A detailed description of the activities of the MIB is provided here for the first time, using newly uncovered archival files. The study points to some of the difficulties and benefits of devel...
Unfair competition law : the protection of intellectural and industrial creativity
Introduction 1. Unfair Competition, Its Legal Basis 2. Making the General Clause Specific 3. The Economics of Preemption and the Abuse of a Dominant Position 4. Shaping a New Action Malign Competition 5. Cognisance in Malign Competition 6. Cognisance in Intellectual Property Law 7. Malign Competition: Action and Remedy Conclusion