Should We Invade Israel?
For decades, advocates of humanitarian intervention argued that the international community should take military action against states engaged in extreme human rights abuses. Israel is one such state.
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When I was in graduate school in the 1990s, the dominant idea in liberal foreign policy circles was that of humanitarian intervention, or the Responsibility to Protect principle. The claim was that, though states should ordinarily respect the sovereignty of other states, under extreme circumstances, say of genocide or ethnic cleansing, it was not just […]
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