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....

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1. Verfasser:	Rieff, David 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] Simon & Schuster 2005
Schlagworte:	aUnited Nations Vereinte Nationen Golfoorlog (2003) Humanitaire interventie Militaire interventie aWar aHumanitarian intervention aIraq War, 2003 Humanitäre Intervention Golfkrieg > 2003 aUnited States > xForeign relations > y1989- aUnited States > xMilitary policy USA Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	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?
Beschreibung:	Includes index.
Beschreibung:	270 S.
ISBN:	0684808676