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Bezig met laden... At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Interventiondoor David Rieff
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I enjoyed this book. Rieff, a staunch supporter of the use of force to insure human rights reflects on its effectiveness. His conclusion, based largely on a look back at the outcomes of intervention in the Balkans in the 90's, the failure to intervene in Rwanda, and the disaster in Iraq, is that intervention, generally, is not successful in assuring human rights, or promoting democracy. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Writing from the front lines of the hot wars of the post-Cold War world -- the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times Magazine -- Rieff witnessed firsthand most of the armed interventions waged in the name of human rights and democratization. His report is anything but reassuring. In this collection of articles, Rieff, one of our leading experts on the subject, reassesses some of his own judgments about the use of military might to solve the world's most pressing humanitarian problems and curb the world's cruelest human rights abusers. Rieff's essays draw a searing portrait of what happens when the grandiose schemes of policymakers and the grandiose ethical ambitions of human rights activists go horribly wrong in the field. Again and again, they ask the question: Do these moral ambitions of ours to protect people from massacre and want match either our means or our wisdom? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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