The note has also been the subject of significant doctrinal studies.

Mr. Abdallah identified the institutional, methodological and doctrinal challenges on which his office focuses its action.

Having said this, there are significant doctrinal differences within the organizations as to whether or not such involvement is appropriate.

Their approach should be based on a sound analysis of what was practical, not doctrinal, and on a logical rather than a philosophical framework.

Doctrinal or policy references that give the impression that nuclear weapons are being accorded increased importance in respective security policies are anathema to disarmament efforts.

For example, Joint Publication 3 60, Joint Doctrine for Targeting, (January 17, 2002), provides doctrinal guidance for joint targeting across the spectrum of military operations.

To have faith in this God would be more like trusting an essential benevolence in the universe, and less like believing a system of doctrinal statements.

In line with this doctrinal framework, no weapons of mass destruction (WMD), whether chemical, biological or nuclear, have been developed, produced or acquired by the country.

It addressed the action of States and was concerned mainly with questions related to the practice of States, whereas the three preceding chapters were more doctrinal in nature.

Whatever the final form of the results of the Commission s work, it was to be hoped that the end product would be more than just a doctrinal report.

The Special Rapporteur clearly preferred the words validity invalidity , which were entirely neutral, to the other terms proposed, such as admissibility inadmissibility , permissibility impermissibility or opposability non opposability , which had strong doctrinal connotations.

It is probable that much of the practice of States takes the form of observations to the effect that the existence and nature of a general principle is the subject of doctrinal controversy.

But it needs great doctrinal clarity, a firm political will, and a constitution. Indeed, rejection of the EU Constitution is a sure way to kill European dynamism and weaken Europe s ability to defend itself.

Naturally, a great deal has been said and written about the legal nature and status of peacekeeping operations, and the doctrinal and political debate continues in the light of the new forms that these operations are assuming.

Devout after a fashion, they follow their conscience or their convenience their lives a more or less amiable standoff between doctrinal prohibitions and vernacular practice. As the comedian Bob Newhart observed, The pope leaves us alone we leave the pope alone.

Though notoriously secretive, the operation is far removed from the Church s more sensitive, doctrinal core. Besides, the commission s members have impeccable loyalist credentials, which is also true of the cardinals appointed by Francis to look into broader issues of reform.

During the 9th Meeting of the CCW GGE the Australian delegation proposed a paper on Minefield Marking that notwithstanding doctrinal and equipment limitations, allowed for a lesser standard to be achieved initially while moving to a higher standard in the future.

Doctrinal or policy utterances that give the impression that nuclear weapons are being accorded increased importance in respective security policies are anathema to disarmament efforts and give rise to justified concerns as to the sincerity of the commitments entered into.

Such questions should not deter the Commission from continuing its work, but in light of the difficulties his delegation welcomed the Commission s decision not to make a pronouncement on the final outcome, which might even take the form of a doctrinal study.

Lastly, as to the final form which the outcome of the Commission s work on the topic should take, i.e., a doctrinal study followed by draft articles, general conclusions or guidelines, it was premature at the current stage to offer even tentative suggestions.

This problem is not just a theoretical or doctrinal concern but a lethal reality for many people across the globe most poignantly for the estimated 10,000 people who will be killed and 20,000 who will be wounded by anti personnel landmines in the coming year.

We must not cry over spilt milk or, worse, yet, rely on individual forces and act alone. As we see it, this is not a question of discussing globalization in hypothetical or doctrinal terms. That might be of interest in igniting academic debates, which are always welcome.

The doctrinal battle pitted the proponents of permissibility, who thought that a reservation could be intrinsically invalid by being contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty, against the advocates of opposability, for whom the reservations regime was governed in its entirety by the reactions of other States.

The good news is that there has been real progress in development policy, and, beneath the doctrinal differences, is a certain convergence not on what works, but on how we should think about and do development policy. The best of the recent work in the two traditions shares common predilections.

The third difficulty for the view that morality is rooted in religion is that some elements of morality seem to be universal, despite sharp doctrinal differences among the world s major religions. In fact, these elements extend even to cultures like China, where religion is less significant than philosophical outlooks like Confucianism.