POL S 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Islamic Courts Union, United States Navy Seals, Desperate Straights
6 Aug 2018
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Somalia examples led to a failure to intervene in rwanda: assessing us/un somali intervention. Important for understanding the absence of intervention in the balkans. Possible to prevent somali anarchy: counterfactual: not so hard to imagine that had the us in 1989 not cut foreign aid to somalia to. Americans: july 2006: ethiopians illegitimate invasion to oust the somali leaders = ousted islamic courts. In somalia, there is a drought and a famine: unprecedented famine in africa (blamed partially on climate change) somalia, south. Front line video and samantha power reading = liberal view on rwanda. Mercer is giving a realist view counter to reading/film. Rwanda facts: very small (size of maryland/belgium, same language and religion, but 85% hutu and 15% tutsi. A. economy collapses, 1987: rwanda"s major export = coffee (prices are cut in half, 93% of people are farmers rwanda becomes dependent on aid because of this.
