POL S 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Arusha Accords, Hutu, Samantha Power
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They thought the information wasn"t good enough and didn"t want another issue like black hawk down and somalia incident. What were the powerful states primarily interested in achieving in. Political will was the denial of the administration of genocide in the rwanda case. Don"t lower the importance of the situation and be aware that governments look out for their own interests over the reality and what has happened: how would realists, liberals, and marxists explain the failure of action of the. Realists would say that the us didn"t intervene because there was no interest in. Liberals would say the us didn"t intervene because there were issues elsewhere to provide aid for and they wanted to preserve peacekeeping as a whole. Marxists would say that there was no interest in africa because there was no money or economic benefit from intervening in rwanda. He was a major general in the canadian army and was commander of the un.