On the latest Foreign Entanglements Laura Seay and I talk Mali:
Tag: intervention
Interesting results from the TRIP survey on IR scholars: It turns out that in the case of using military force against Iran, thirty percent of self-identified realists advocate the use of force in the
A few brief thoughts on the Kony mission. David Dayen: The Administration’s claimed legal justification comes from a law called the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recove
Gbago gone: Forces of president-elect Alassane Ouattara arrested outoing President Laurent Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan on Monday, after an assault on the compound that involved French and U.N. troops. Reuters reported that 30 tanks made their way from the French military base toward the neighborhood where Gbagbo resides. The battle that followed has […]
Let’s be clear; not only is Anne Marie Slaughter making less sense than Ross Douthat, she’s also making less sense than Paul Wolfowitz: It is only in the context of a larger assistance str
A no fly zone over Libya has at least one set of ready advocates: Now [F-22] advocates are arguing that the world’s most capable tactical aircraft should be used to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya. I
There’s a lot of interesting stuff out on the utility of a no fly zone over Libya; I’d recommend Spencer, David Axe, Adam Elkus, and Magnus to start. The operational details are actually pretty important, because the political impact of any effort to enforce a no fly zone depends on decisions to pre-emptively suppress the […]
The Jedi Principle runs so: If you need the Jedi in order to make your project work, don’t start. The Jedi Principle comes to mind in the context of defenses of US support for the 2006 Ethiopi
Three months ago, Robert Kaplan and (to a lesser extent) George Packer decided to try to use Burmese cyclone victims as props in Humanitarian Intervention III: Objective Burma! The argument was that S
1. It’s a terrible idea. 2. It’s a terrible idea because… The problem with Burma right now is that the civil service infrastructure is by turns unable and unwilling to manage the disaster that resulted from the cyclone. Offers of foreign assistance are dangerous, because they put the inability of SLORC to handle the crisis […]