Downsizing military budgets will enable sustainable development, the eradication of extreme poverty, the tackling of global challenges including pand… - Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Democracy and self-determination serve the overall goal of enabling human security and human rights.

There is nothing more undemocratic and corrosive to the rule of law than a coup d’état.

Modern-day economic sanctions and blockades are comparable with medieval sieges of towns.... Twenty-first century sanctions attempt to bring not just a town, but sovereign countries to their knees. The key to the solution of the crisis is dialogue and mediation… There is nothing more undemocratic than a coup d’état and nothing more corrosive to the rule of law and to international stability when foreign governments meddle in the internal affairs of other states...