Sentences with phrase «foreign policy justification»

MPs argued that the core foreign policy justification for invading Afghanistan in 2001 - denying the country as a base for al - Qaida - «may have been achieved some time ago».

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As Micah Zenko (an expert quoted in the McClatchy story) notes at Foreign Policy, these revelations drastically undermine the legal justification for the program:

If so, that would mke the terrorist the victoms of our foreign policy, and offer a justification for their style of fighting.

I know of no realist work interested in post hoc political justifications for foreign policy actions.

What's the justification behind self - sabotaging foreign policy.

Even if one could say that such treatment reflects some policy of the various foreign states involved, or indeed of the United Kingdom, it goes far beyond any conduct previously recognised as requiring judicial abstention... The critical point in my view is the nature and seriousness of the misconduct alleged in both cases before the Supreme Court, at however high a level it may have been authorised... Sovereign states who without justification and without permitting access to justice detain or mistreat individuals in the course or in relation to their conduct of foreign relations or affairs have sovereign immunity in foreign domestic courts.

The court accepted that the unions wanted to ensure that all employers active in the Swedish labour market had to pay wages (and apply other terms and conditions) in line with those usual in Sweden, to establish fair competition on an equal basis between Swedish and foreign employers, but then said directly that none of those considerations constituted sufficient grounds of public policy, security or health, and so justification had not been established.