Understandable Failure: The Eisenhower Administration's Strategic Goals in Iraq, 1953-1958

The present article contends that while the United States did not link Iraq to the West in a Northern Tier alliance aimed at containing the Soviet Union, the failure to do so was not principally a result of mistakes made by Washington. American actions in Iraq were constrained by the competing imperial ambitions of the United Kingdom and by the regional political goals of the Iraqi monarchy. The criticism that the Eisenhower administration undermined the stability of the Iraqi monarchy by not supplying it with sufficient aid, and encouraging it to join the unpopular Baghdad Pact ignores the importance that Britain and the Iraqi government itself had on fate of the Iraqi monarchy.     

An illuminating case on the law of registered designs

This case involving registered design rights has clarified theapproach that courts will take in determining, inter alia, thevalidity of a registered design right when the purported proprietoris not entitled to that right and the characteristics of the‘informed user’ when determining infringement.     

Commentary: In Response to the Paper by Oran R. Young,How Can International Regimes Solve Environmental Problems? (see pp. 9–29)

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics -