Sartre’s concept of freedom should not be omitted from debates in political thought. His is a valuable ‘technical and philosophical’ concept rooted in questions of existence and being.
Humanitarian intervention creates a human rights conundrum, but it is a crucial tool in stopping humanitarian crises and protecting the welfare of civilian populations caught therein.
A critique of Realism is its supposed inability to consider the growing role of non-state actors. However, without differentiating Realism into its various strands, this is too simple a critique.
It would be beneficial to free the concept of democracy of its territorial, state-bound constraints and work toward a more democratic global order, but a new global structure is not feasible.
International interventions appear to be legitimised on moral, ethical and humanitarian grounds, but often they are abused as a weapon of realpolitik whilst facing calls of imperialism.
While global resources are by no means unlimited, the nature of competition for resources between states is not as aggressive as that between individuals in a state of nature.
The egoistic passions and self-interests of states, in terms of military, economic and diplomatic power, marked the increasing number of UN peacekeeping operations after 1990.
Although “humanitarian interventions” have been undertaken in the post-Cold War era, most were not purely humanitarian-oriented, but driven by states’ national interests.
Two intelligence failures in the European fight against Asian anti-imperial insurgency seem to be classic intelligence scandals with grave implications for the Asian continent.
When differentiating one group from another, whether it is a societal differentiation, national or ethnic distinctions, a process of ‘self-definition’ and ‘other-definition’ occur.
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