POLI 423 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethnic Conflict, Moral Hazard, Indirect Rule
6 Apr 2016
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Types of internaional acion: humanitarian assistance: oten red cross, medical, food, etc. Problems: depends on consensus, may change balance of power on the ground, hard to channel: fact inding missions: determine who started it, who is ighing, status of civilians, proof of ethnic cleansing, presence of internaional volunteers, etc. Problems: depends on consensus, may serve as a cover for military and diplomaic rebalancing, missions may have geopoliical agendas: mediaion: can occur at any point during a conlict, includes negoiaing humanitarian assistance provision, cease ires, etc. Problems: depends on consensus, may serve as a cover for military and diplomaic rebalancing, missions may have geopoliical agendas: tradiional peace-keeping missions: dependent on consensus. Problems: may change balance of power, may exacerbate conlict: arms embargoes and economic sancions: easiest to get approval from internaional community because it"s more of a lack of acion than an acion.
