In Celebration of Senseless Acts of Kindness
There are many blogs on humanitarianism & development. They tend to be overly-technical, narrowly prescriptive, and circulate within the international aid industry. The Flesh and Blood blog will offer something different.
Robust Peacekeeping: A Desirable Development?
The challenge is to find the right balance of deploying strong UN missions that effectively protect civilians whilst maintaining an impartial position in the conflict.
Interview – Tanisha Fazal
Dr. Fazal discusses her research on state death, breakthroughs in the study of civil war initiation and termination, and changing norms of humanitarian intervention.
State-building and Fragility of Personality-dependent Political Order
There is a need for political imagination that goes beyond immediate security interests, political and military transitions, and reconciliation with insurgent groups.
Opposition in Bolivarian Venezuela: Caught Between Conflict and Compromise
The Venezuelan opposition has undergone important changes in an institutionalist direction in its composition, discursive emphasis, and strategic direction.
Review – United States-Africa Security Relations
Kalu & Kieh’s edited collection presents a key understanding of where US-Africa relations should be going, instead of an adequate analysis of where they are now.
Revisiting ‘Responsibility to Protect’ after Libya and Syria
R2P contains glaring theoretical drawbacks and its practice by Western powers creates the scope for a mix up of humanitarian concerns with their strategic interests.
Rationality and R2P: Unfriendly Bedfellows
The largest obstacles to consistent implementation and enforcement of R2P remain its flawed epistemological foundations and the enduring nature of the international system.
Syria and the Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
The human suffering in the Syrian crisis since February 2011 is, above all, a tragedy for the Syrian people, but also demonstrably a crisis of international intervention.
Syria Teaches Us Little About Questions of Military Intervention
To some, the international response to the Syrian crisis has meant the end of the R2P. But the lack of intervention in Syria teaches us little about the intervention norm.
