The above is summary of an article I wrote which is available on the e-ir website. Please take a look.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Humanitarian Intervention
Western countries need to redefine their security agenda so as to return to basic core values which were seen in the 1990s. If we forsake such basic tenets, then we risk losing our sense of self; a fact which could have far worse ramifications than any specific terrorist threat or oil shortage.
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Dude, maybe it's just my naff computer but the link doesn't work for me, could you check again?
ReplyDeleteDo you think the latest episode in Libya is connected with oil? I think that the west has much more reliable supplies than 15 years ago?
It works on my computer and iphone and so most be a system problem on yours. Here it is anyway:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.e-ir.info/?p=7692
Enjoy :)
Sorry I forgot to answer your second point. I agree that it is not simply an oil problem. I argue in my essay for a humanitarian foreign policy but am enough of a realist to see that this does not yet drive every country or decision in the west. However there is luckily a coalescence of reasons as there was in Kosovo.
ReplyDeleteLibya is on NATO and the EU's doorstep and it would be a strategic disaster if we allowed for unrestricted warfare so close to home; the last thing we need is it spreading or having an unbalancing effect on the EU. While this provides the self-interest reason we can act on are humanitarian instincts into the bargain : a double whammy.