Yet Again Humanitarian Intervention ...

Yet Again Humanitarian Intervention and the Challenges of "Never Again", Bruce W. Jentleson, in Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, Chester A Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, eds. (United States Institute for Peace Press, January 2007) In his article, Jentleson reviews the lessons of the 1990s, assesses the impact of 9/11 and other recent developments, with a particular focus on the Darfur case, and proposes strategies to meet the challenges of "Never Again." Excerpt: "Second, the norm of the responsibility to protect needs to be further strenghtened as a basis for abridging state sovereignty and intervening in intrastate conflicts that cross the just-cause threshold. (...) This requires the United States and other major and regional powers to be conscious of concerns about high-minded humanitarian rationales being manipulated as cover for classical self-interested interventions. Those with power have the responsibility to protect the legitimacy of the responsibility to protect. At the same time, those who would tightly restrict interventions in the name of broad principles such as sovereignty, yet are acting much more out of their own self-interest in being free to be repressive and murderous within their own borders, also need to be stripped of their cover story." For more information on this book and to order it, please go to:   http://bookstore.usip.org/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=146848