Yet a host of GOP presidential candidates, and commentators from both the liberal interventionist and neoconservative schools, argue that humanitarian intervention is dead—and that Obama killed it.

While Bessner criticizes the realist position espoused by Measheimer for its tendency to “reify” great power competition, he is equally—if not more—skeptical of Walzer’s internationalist faith in the ...

Liberal imperialists– like neocons– believe in a country’s ... My gripes are the way in which liberal imperialists hijack humanitarian intervention and endorse it as a benevolent act of the ...

During the 1990s, a previously little-known concept rapidly became the hottest term in international relations. “Humanitarian intervention”—at its simplest, the use of military force to ...

Modern humanitarian intervention was first conceived in the years following the end of the Cold War. The triumph of liberal democracy over communism made Western leaders optimistic that they could ...

So let’s review: No clear national or even humanitarian interest for military intervention. Intervening well past the point where our intervention can have a decisive effect. And finally, intervening ...

Host Scott Simon speaks with former leader of Canada's Liberal Party Michael Ignatieff about so-called "humanitarian intervention" in Syria. Middle East August 31, 2013 8:00 AM ET ...

In the run up to the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, media tried hard to sell the concept of a supposedly "humanitarian intervention." "Why Obama should bomb Libya. Now," ran Public Radio ...

Against Liberal Intervention John R. MacArthur July 28, 2003 The United States vetoed any attempt to reinforce U.N. troops in Rwanda, leaving 800,000 to die on the altars of national sovereignty ...

January 21, 2009. International humanitarian leaders will travel to DePauw University in March to participate in the Humanitarian Intervention Symposium, hosted by the Janet Prindle Institute for ...