In light of the recent developments in Syria and the apparently imminent US military intervention, the blog will take a short break from its relatively academic style and its thematic focus in order to brainstorm and share some thoughts on the broader picture of what is happening in the geopolitical arena of the region. Dangerous Double Standards Bashar al-Assad has reportedly used chemical weapons to attack, essentially, his own people. The first, logically obvious question is why would Assad essentially...
In the early 2000s, the international community has time and again used humanitarian pretexts to intervene in interethnic, inter-faith and other kinds of conflict in which civilans’ rights are threatened. What results has humanitarian intervention yielded? Does it have a future? Will it continue to serve as a geopolitical tool to reshape conflict regions to the West’s best advantage? And what region could become the next testing ground for this humanitarian intervention ...
Foreign opinion
In this special interview for the Russian International Affairs Council Professor Michael Doyle analyses the practical dilemmas of humanitarian interventions in the examples of NATO’s military intervention in Libya and the international response to the Syrian civil war. He discusses the circumstances under which intervention is permissible; whether regional organizations have ...
On April 11, 2012 Russian International Affairs Council jointly with
Human Rights Watch
non-governmental organization held a roundtable on the theme “
Humanitarian Intervention: Legal Norms and Practical Implementation
” Military interference of international coalition forces in the civil war in Libya in 2011 and the ongoing debates in the UN Security Council on the necessity of applying similar ...
