Word: interventionism
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Others contend that the rules attacked freedom of speech. The charge is curious on its face; freedom of speech does not entail state subsidy of speech. But state subsidy of organizations that advocate particular causes can have the appearance of state support. This is exactly one of the problems the...
Three United Nations employees cast a critical but hopeful eye at the peacekeeping organization during a panel discussion titled “Peacekeeping: Can the U.N. Meet the Challenge?” last night at the Institute of Politics. Michael R. Gaouette ’90, a team leader for...
On Easter Sunday of 2008, 11-year-old Kara Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin, suffered waves of nausea as she lay motionless on her deathbed, too weak to walk or speak. Kara's parents - both followers of the Unleavened Bread Ministries, an online church that shuns medical intervention - knelt in prayer...
But as Alan Doss, the U.N. special representative who is the MONUC boss, admits, MONUC is also something of a test of good intentions. "R2P is a huge step forward in terms of the principle of international humanitarian intervention," he says. "But the question remains: How do we actually do...
Talk of war is a long way from traditional peacekeeping. But it is a direct consequence of the open-ended nature of R2P, and it raises troubling questions. Where does the responsibility to protect end? Does it mean fighting a national army? Does it mean supplanting a national government? Does...