Recent Articles
APR 19, 2001 • Article
Willing to Kill But Not to Die?
Is American policy drifting toward an approach that could be labeled "willing to kill but not to die"? If we consider ourselves a moral nation, ...
MAR 27, 2001 • Article
Aid to the Former Yugoslavia
This report on the Balkans Forum held on Capitol Hill by the Carnegie Council's Conflict Prevention Program includes annotated links to primary source information, special ...
MAR 19, 2001 • Article
The Details Matter: Human Rights and the War on Terrorism
Is a deepening clash between human rights and national security inevitable?
FEB 15, 2001 • Article
Moral Dilemmas of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq
When it comes to issues such as imposing sanctions, pursuing assassination, overthrowing regimes, and waging war, the moral questions may be the most important ones.
JAN 20, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Introduction: Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention
The most immediate and visible effect of humanitarian intervention is on the actual human rights abuses that it is supposed to stem. Does the intervention ...
JAN 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Was Intervention in Kosovo Just? A Kosovar Perspective
Visoka observes that "despite claims by Serbian politicians and diplomats that this was an internal Yugoslav affair, the international community decided that the ...
JAN 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: The Choices for the International Human Rights Movement
Roth remarks that, for the pacifist, "the debate over humanitarian intervention is easy. War is the ultimate evil, to be opposed in any circumstance. For ...
JAN 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: Inconsistency and the Tragedy of Africa's Neglect
Humanitarian intervention is based on the alleviation of human rights violations, but recent actions in Sierra Leone and Kosovo suggest that the practice has less ...
JAN 6, 2001 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 5 (Winter 2001): Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention: Articles: The Successes and Failures of UN Intervention in East Timor
Magno observes: "Every time you talk about an international tribunal with someone who works for the U.N. in East Timor they say, 'Well, you ...