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No More Humanitarian Interventions

Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State | June 12, 2008

"Many of the world’s necessary interventions in the decade before the invasion - in places like Haiti and the Balkans - would seem impossible in today’s climate." ++ In the wake of the Burmese cyclone, the strength of totalitarian governments and the unwillingness of others to pressure them have all become troublingly apparent. ++ US involvement in Iraq has only accelerated this trend. ++ Does the international system have the goal of creating a more humane world or is it merely a legal means created "by governments to protect governments?"

 

 
Tags: | Burma | R2P | Myanmar | international law | intervention |
 
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