POLS 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lake Victoria Ferries, Humanitarian Intervention, Reactive Devaluation
1 May 2016
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Supposed to be an evolution over humanitarian intervention. The idea is that the international community cannot stand aside when the gov"t of a country is violating its ppl. The skeptic views in the hi an r2p. Intervention is likely to work when its goals are strictly limited. Success is because goals are strictly limited. The us as repeatedly refrainged from intervening in conflicts during the 20th century. Wertheim"s objections: the principal problems is limiting the desire fix the problems of others. Rwanda happened in the aftermath of somlia. Outlines for when the us should intervene. If you are trying to intervene everywhere, you will not be successful anywhere: proponents of intervention engage in revisionist history. Rewrite an invent/conflict as something that could have easily been solved: political will does not equal conflict resolution. Assumptions that we have the tools to stop and intervene in conflicts. Wrong to assume that intervention will lead to conflict resolution.
