Can Humanitarian Intervention be Humanitarian?
Not since the debate about the Kosovo War of 1999 has there been such widespread discussion of humanitarian intervention, including the semantics of coupling ‘humanitarian’ with the word...
View ArticleRethinking Afghanistan After a Decade
Reading what I wrote about Afghanistan a decade ago reminded me of how much my understanding of the role of war and hard power in upholding security for the nation and the world has changed. Actually,...
View ArticleOpening the Other Eye: Charles Taylor and Selective Criminal Accountability
From all that we know Charles Taylor deserves to be held criminally accountable for his role in the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone during the period 1998-2002. Taylor was then President of...
View ArticleHow to Save a Stumbling ‘Economic Europe’
It was only a few years ago that Europe was being praised as the savior of world order, and heralded as the hope for the future of world order. Books with such titles as The European Superpower and...
View ArticleReflections on Teju Cole’s ‘Open City’
Anyone interested in the world, or for that matter, an affection for the greatest of modern cities—New York—will find Teju Cole’s Open City, a feast for both mind and heart. Cole writes with exquisite...
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