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
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
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
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