Libya

Theo Alex Tabarrock (MR), con trai tổng thống Gaddafi, người tuyên bố trên truyền hình Libya mấy ngày trước rằng "we will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet" đã hoàn thành luận án PhD về international relation tại LSE năm 2007. Phần abstract của luận án viết thế này:

"This dissertation analyses the problem of how to create more just and democratic global governing institutions, exploring the approach of a more formal system of collective decision-making by the three main actors in global society: governments, civil society and the business sector....

The thesis explains and adopts three philosophical foundations in support of the argument. The first is liberal individualism; the thesis argues that there are strong motivations for free individuals to seek fair terms of cooperation within the necessary constraints of being members of a global society. Drawing on the works of David Hume, John Rawls and Ned McClennen, it elaborates significant self-interested and moral motives that prompt individuals to seek cooperation on fair terms if they expect others to do so. Secondly, it supports a theory of global justice, rejecting the limits of Rawls’s view of international justice based on what he calls ‘peoples’ rather than persons. Thirdly, the thesis adopts and applies David Held’s eight cosmopolitan principles to support the concept and specific structures of ‘Collective Management’."

Update (21/3): Bruce Krasting có một nhận xét thú vị: dường như các báo tiếng Anh không thống nhất được với nhau cách phiên âm tên của tổng thống Libya:

Gadhafi……..WSJ

Gaddafi……..London Telegraph

Qaddafi…….NYT

Kadafi………LA Times

Kaddafi…….Christian Science Monitor

Gadahafi…..Yahoo

Khadafy……NY Daily News

Ghadafi…….NZZ

Khaddafi…..NZZ

Khadifi……..Wikipedia

Ghaddifi……Daily Mail