Humanitarian Intervention

Review – Sword and Salve

Jessica Gerken • Mar 20 2013 • Features

In this comprehensive study analyzing the interdependent dynamics between modern warfare and humanitarianism, the authors attempt to answer why humanitarianism is in a multi-level crisis.

Unpacking Rwanda’s Involvement in DR Congo and the International Response

Danielle Beswick • Dec 19 2012 • Articles

Censuring Rwanda for its involvement in DR Congo could put its prominent UN peacekeeping contributions at risk. Rwanda has shown some willingness to negotiate a withdrawal of M23 from Goma.

What is the United Nations For?

Michael Aaronson • Nov 27 2012 • Articles

The Civil War in Sri Lanka ended in May 2009. To date there have been no international prosecutions for the crimes that occurred. That is the gravest failure highlighted by recent disclosures.

Ethics and Empirics: The Influence of Hayward R. Alker on Global Studies

Renee Marlin-Bennett • Sep 17 2012 • Articles

Alker demonstrated the importance and the practicality of ethically grounded, empirically rigorous studies of global relations. He leaves behind an important body of work.

Humanitarian Intervention and Geo-Politics: A Complicated Confluence

Amos N Guiora • Sep 11 2012 • Articles

The complicated confluence of humanitarian intervention and geo-political considerations require the Obama Administration to articulate and implement consistent, well thought through principles and values in Syria.

Intervention vs Non-Intervention in Syria: Assessing Costs and Benefits for the West

Mark N. Katz • Sep 4 2012 • Articles

In the case of Syria, Western policymakers need to focus on, not whether to choose between intervention and non-intervention, but what sort of intervention will minimize costs and maximize benefits.

US Intervention in the “Arab Spring”

Asad AbuKhalil • Aug 28 2012 • Articles

US intervention in the Arab world is still predicated on the same foundations that determined the courses of US foreign policy during the Cold War. With the Arab Spring, US intervention is likely to continue and expand.

Lebanon and the Syria Crisis

Vicky Kelberer and Augustus Richard Norton • Aug 17 2012 • Articles

With Syria descending into all out civil war, neighboring Lebanon finds itself in a precarious spot. The Lebanese government’s equivocal stance may prove impossible to continue.

Fighting Intervention or Fighting Imperialism?

Tanzil Chowdhury • Aug 4 2012 • Articles

Many progressives have unwittingly accepted the Arab Spring narrative in Syria. More scepticism is required because without this ‘intervention’ cannot ever be justified.

Hitting the Target?

Michael Aaronson • Jul 17 2012 • Articles

The only thing that is precise about drone strikes is the machine that delivers them. We should be realistic about how much we can programme imprecision out of our lives – and more modest about the true nature of precision strikes.

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