Democracy and Military Intervention Democracy Democracy may be a way of life in the United States but elsewhere in the world it is a foreign concept. As democracy spreads around the globe there are many places where its development has been impeded Continue Reading...
Military Intervention Is Military Intervention in Other Countries Justifiable? The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms defines military in tervention as "The deliberate act of a nation or a group of nations to introduc Continue Reading...
S. was faced with a: "critical test..." (1999) when the Serbs began their assault on the Kosovar Albanians in March 1999" and in fact Starr believes this test was of more consequence than the one posed by Iraq in 1991 because in the Gulf War the Unit Continue Reading...
With this approach in mind, it is impossible to consider a viable implementation of Western democracy in the conditions in which there are few, if any, common points to relate moral values and norms to. Despite this current inability of Western cou Continue Reading...
However in those days, the progress was even slower and there was deeper concern about the possibility of complete transition. Samuel Huntington's path-breaking book, Political Order in Changing Societies (1968) has been by far the most well receiv Continue Reading...
Humanitarian intervention: When is it justified? One of the most controversial concerns of 20th and 21st century international affairs is the question of when it is justified to embark upon humanitarian interventions. On one hand, there have been cl Continue Reading...
Even if it, the tyranny of the majority would challenge the idea that sovereignty should be the utmost principle by which the world's people guide itself. Conclusion The United Nations has developed the R2P concept on the basis of its philosophica Continue Reading...
Interventionism Libya In the spring of 2011 -- the Arab Spring -- I was living in Cyprus. From the deck outside of my bedroom I looked out over the Mediterranean, where the sun was setting, towards the north coast of Africa. Across that water, in L Continue Reading...
Introduction The consideration of when it is or is not legitimate to use military force against another group or country is one that requires astute ethical analysis. Deontological ethics can be useful for determining the moral righteousness of milit Continue Reading...
20. China must consult Japan whenever foreign capital is needed in improving the infrastructure of Fukien Province. 21. China must give Japanese the right to preach in China. On May Fourth, some 3,000 students from Peking University and other sch Continue Reading...
Movement All good things must come to an end, and at no time is this fact truer than in China in 1911, when the Xinhai Revolution resulted in the fall of the Qing Dynasty. This led to a period of unrest, as the world's powers engaged in World War I Continue Reading...
branches of democratic governments create a balance of power, disallowing any one branch to amass or wield disproportionate power. Branches of government also ensure role clarity and stability in the separation of powers. Each branch serves a role, Continue Reading...
Much of the country to this day suffers, and many look back and consider the country at best a "wasteland" destroyed and dismantled for unrecognizable causes (Kirkwood-Tucker & Benton, 2002). World response was so dramatic to the war in Vietnam Continue Reading...
“As Long as The Personal and Societal Safety of American Citizens Is at Risk from External Threats, Historical Precedents Suggest That Rather Few Limits Will Be Placed on The Use of American Military Power, Or on The Constraints the United Stat Continue Reading...
That said, Goodhart believes that global governance, if pushed too far into sovereign nations' doings, can in fact undermine popular sovereignty as "a viable conception of democracy" but it is not doing that and in fact, in a globalized world that i Continue Reading...
Leisure May Be the Death of Europe Economics Time to Kill In his article, Time to Kill - Europe and the Politics of Leisure, Steven Muller examines the efforts of Europe to reconstitute itself in the aftermath of the Cold War. By analyzing such fa Continue Reading...
Summary In essence, the Vietnam War started as an anticolonial war against the French and soon morphed into a fully blown military conflict that eventually occasioned the Cold War clash between democracy anchored on free markets on one hand and inter Continue Reading...
On November 8, 2001, the U.S. Senate passed several new conditions before direct 'military-to-military relations can be restored with Indonesia including the punishment of the individuals who murdered three humanitarian aid workers in West Timor, es Continue Reading...
However, despite the severe competition, the people of Latin America still hold the traditions of the church close to their hearts and give a lot of respect to religious figures (Jean-Pierre, 1998). The relationship between the church and the gover Continue Reading...
France could also control the flow of goods and services through Southern and Central America. The French saw their actions as justified because of the sweeping and threatening United States annexation of California, Arizona and New Mexico, even mo Continue Reading...
In spite of the fact that everyone would like matters to be simpler in the case of Burma, the masses need to comprehend that the authoritarian government in the country is not going to change as a result of outside pressures or because of Suu Kyi's Continue Reading...
Iraq War: Humanitarian Intervention? No news item garners more interest and more debate today in America and around the world than the impending second war against Iraq. President George Bush led a coalition in a war against Iraq over a decade ago Continue Reading...
In addition, the nation needs to garner advice from other nations as to how to build on its economy and bring out the desire to succeed in individuals who have spent years under a dictatorship regime and now face their homeland in ruins. If the sup Continue Reading...
The other major communities in Iraq are both ethnically Arab -- though from different areas -- or sects -- of Islam: the Sunni and the Shi'a (Munson 2009). The Shi'a in Iraq make up about 20% of the current [2009] population while the Sunni make up Continue Reading...
military, as exemplified in the two (2) real-Life international incidents that you have researched. Justify your response. America is not merely a superpower -- the nation is also commonly known as the 'Policeman of the World', owing to its many int Continue Reading...
S. And Russia initiated and encourage in the pursuit of their respective objectives, has gone out of control and is expanding to include not only conventional weapons but also space-based systems and nuclear missiles. It is this frightening arms race Continue Reading...
WARFARE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (EDIT CUSTOMER'S DRAFT) One of the most contentious issues in contemporary warfare is the concept of rules of engagement (ROE). Just as the Vietnam War highlighted the concept in the 1960s, America's current involvement Continue Reading...
ROE Rules of Engagement (ROE) are necessary to a certain degree during wars and skirmishes in order to determine what actions military personnel can take when confronted with immediate and personal dangerous or violent situations. Correct ROE is th Continue Reading...
Quoted in "Strengthen Alliances..." Chapter III of "NSS" paper) Not long after the unveiling of the Bush doctrine vide the NSS, the United States demonstrated its practical application by taking unilateral military action against Iraq despite oppo Continue Reading...
One also has to question the 'rationality 'of these criteria in the light of the severity of the possible repercussions and diplomatic fallout. The most acceptable criterion which could justify the use of force in intervention is when the freedom o Continue Reading...
War While the United States of America over the past decades has maintained its superiority over other nations in terms of political clout, there is a certain imbalance in power within the geopolitical system of the world that is causing nations to Continue Reading...
According to National Public Radio, after U.S. forces invaded Iraq in March of 2003 Blackwater received another contract, to provide security, as mentioned in the introduction. A terrible incident happened in 2004 in the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Four Continue Reading...
" (Miles, 2006) According to Norway's Department of Defense document entitled: "International Military Operations, Crisis Management - Multinational Operations" when a country is a participant in an "multinational crisis management" initiative entai Continue Reading...
In this respect, it was not the reality which mattered but rather the perception of that reality. Most of the times during the Cold War, but especially after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reality showed that the perception of the Russian Soviets Continue Reading...
interventionism from the perspective of realism vs. idealism. Realism is defined in relationship to states' national interests whereas idealism is defined in relation to the UN's Responsibility to Protect doctrine -- a doctrine heavily influenced by Continue Reading...
War on Terror Towards the end of the first week of the war against Iraq, public support for the war remained strong. To many people, Saddam Hussein's actions and failure to comply with weapons inspections leaves the United States with no choice but Continue Reading...
The conditions during the Cold War period were exceptional and they asked for rather exceptional measures. The foreign policy of the U.S., as a hegemonic power of the world was under a tremendous amount of pressure. On one hand there were the fear Continue Reading...
Third World Development What are the growing problems of ethnic tensions and violence in the developing world? It is impossible to state all of the growing problems of ethnic tension and violence in the developing world, because old tensions are co Continue Reading...
This includes putting in place international legal systems, dispute resolution mechanisms as well as cooperative arrangements.14 The call this approach social peace-building or structural peace-building. Such peace-building involves "creating struct Continue Reading...
