Humanitarian intervention

return of US forces back into Iraq in 2014, attempting to halt the advances of ISIS. The Afghanistan War began in 2001 and still continues to this day, seemingly with no end in sight. The United States also has engaged in multiple costly humanitarian interventions, attempting to defend human rights, suppress undesirable movements, and install democracies; involving themselves in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, and Syria. Instead of using its military strength as a strategy for…

How do Executive War Powers Impact United States Politics? In terms of US war powers, it is well known that Congress exclusively holds the power in the Constitution to declare war. However, in more recent times, the Presidents have found ways to declare military action without the input of Congress, starting in the Cold War Era and extending into today’s military campaigns (Burns, 2015; Hathaway, n.d.; Hinnebusch, 2007; Van Alstyne, 1972). In this paper, I will present current and former…

In the Post Cold War Era, new aspects of security became apparent and led to the expansion of security; security was not only the security of particular states or people but the security of the international society and security was not only based on issues between states but issues within states. The Post cold War developments of security led to the concept of human security which emphasizes the security of individuals not of states. The chapter implies that security had remained the crucial…

evidence in Rwanda and just presumed living peaceably. In a period of hundred days during 1994, it was estimated that over 800,000 people were slaughtered as a result of the hutu militia and constant battle between the two groups. Despite the humanitarian effort to protect the victims of the genocide, the world failed to stop this injustice and recognize Rwanda as a “genocide”. Film Description: The Story follows the experience of the Mille Collines hotel Manager Paul Rusesabagina who has…

Peter Singer is on of the world’s most influential philosophers. Peter Singer’s book, One World, is about the ethics of the world and globalization. Throughout the book, Singer brings up different examples of what is going on in the world, and what we are doing wrong. For instance, there was more funding for 9/11 victims over funding for poor families across the world. There are four dilemmas Singer talks about in his book, and the ethical solutions to these dilemmas. The four dilemmas are the…

Temple has been in 2010 Time Magazine and was named “most effective person in the world”. She was also named National Humanitarian from American Humane Association in 2011 (“Temple”). She got these awards because she designed a way for cattle to not be stressed before they go to be killed. When they get killed, they are shipped to slaughterhouses for meat. McDonald's and Burger…

Arriving on a foreign shore after witnessing first-hand the terror of war is something no one imagines to experience, however for a growing number of new Australian residents, and therefore students, this is their reality. For refugee children in this situation they also enter an education system which aims to be inclusive and supportive of their learning requirements. The Australian curriculum has been constructed to be inclusive of diversity, incorporating culture, English as second language…

While most people would acknowledge that prevalent gender inequality exists in the United States and other developed countries - whether through pay gaps, misrepresentation in governance, or blatant sexism - and that there is a struggle to address these inequalities, we take for granted the quality of life that American women have over many others throughout the world. The treatment of women throughout the world varies from country to country; in many cases, women in underdeveloped or…

The white savior, the white Messiah complex and the white man’s burden are all names for a common trope in books and movies which are basically about a white person who saves a colored person or solve their problems, like in “Dances With Wolves”, “The Blind Side” or “Avatar”. In some cases the white saviors shows up as movements like the colonial project, Out of Africa, The Constant Gardener and Kony 2012. While the white savior complex advances stereotypes that have been, without a doubt,…

destroyed by the war and the population suffering greatly in result. He speaks of chaos and political violence. I do not doubt the validity of these claims, however, the anti-communist message is clear. The United States’ aid to Greece was not simply a humanitarian act, but an attempt to curb the perceived threat of communism. I am glad the United States sent aid to struggling nations, but I am not so sure how I feel about the effort to more or less destroy communism. It is true that communism…