PSC 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Humanitarian Intervention, George W. Bush, Sam Huntington
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Humanitarian intervention comes of age: lessons from somalia to libya. Normal international politics - game played by leadership of states which has no or immediate impact on the general public. After the fall of the czar in 1917 in russia - there was a proven conflict between democracy, capitalism, nationalism, individual rights v communism, monarchy, Democracy isn"t the way of the future because it causes internal conflicts. Wwii = battle between realism and liberalism. Liberalism still prevails but it only lasted about 3 years. Now it is for liberalism and against liberalism (in the form of maoist communism and stalin"s communism) 1990 - collapse of ussr = triumph of liberalism. It"s not that he means nothing interesting will happen in this world, but the clash between ideologies has come to an end. They"re not the majority of the people in the world and other people probably want a say. Future conflicts will be about western values v. religious civilizations.
