SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: John Stuart Mill, Alphabeat (Album)
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Soci 265 war, states, and social change. Figures about civil wars in wimmer are right from the very start. Record of the us intervening in countries since 1945 is huge. You have seen putin intervening in a largely sophisticated way, reasserting his role to be a great power. The very moment when assad, his prot g , said he can do whatever he likes putin withdraws. Assad realizes he has to listen to what putin is saying. Show that we are powerful, can control things and cannot be pushed around. Realists: the world has become more peaceful because there has been a general acceptance of not intervening in other countries, give them a chance to develop themselves. The right to protect is now virtually acceptable as a norm of international behaviour to prevent genocide. Successful intervention in sierra leone by the british. You cannot stand by and let a massacre occur.