PSCI 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Humanitarian Intervention, World Politics, Socalled
26 Nov 2015
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Consider the concept of intervention", especially so-called humanitarian intervention". Debate the question of the justification of humanitarian intervention. Each conflict is situated in a unique political, social and historical setting. Textbook example: the deeply entrenched conflict on the divided korean peninsula, where hatred and constant tension continue to dominate politics even half a century after the korean war. How to deal with north korea one of the most reclusive, ideologically isolated countries in the world today. Chapter 26 looks at how the stance of the united states, which plays a key role in korea, has gone back and forth between an uncompromising confrontational position and a more tolerant attitude, reflecting respective policy debates in washington. Japan occupied korea in the 1890s and formally annexed the country in 1910. At the end of wwii, the two dominant victorious countries, the us and the ussr, dismantled the defeated japanese empire.
