 |
||||||||
|
3/10/2003 08:05:00 PM | Timothy Useful Idiots You got to love it when someone says it is no problem breaking international law, because we did it during the Bay of Pigs and in support of a 1954 coup in Gautamala (done to help out a U.S. Corporation, United Fruit). (We might ask whether our own actions could tell us something about why international institutions have had a hard time being effective... people forget that the U.S. is a pretty unique position right now). Louis Henkin rightly said most nations obey most international law most of the time. This is not explanable merely in terms of pure short term self-interest. Nations do sometimes act against their interests to observe international law or moral principles. Witness Britain's actions against the slave trade in the 19th century. Whether a state will act against their core interests is another story, but it helps to, prior to making assertions, to have actually studied different theories besides realism (and realism itself), rather than pontificate, unencumbered by knowledge. But then again, it's not really much different than professional neo-con punditry, so... Observer posters citing John Mearsheimer should note that he has publically come out against a war in Iraq, as have most of the big name realist scholars in International Relations. I am not going to deny the hegemony of realism in IR, but it is sad when even the premier 'offensive realist' does not support your position on the war, huh? perma link |
| 0 comments
0 Comments: |
Dartmouth The Free Press Alums for Social Change The Green Magazine The Dartmouth Dartmouth Observer Dartmouth Review Dartlog Inner Office The Little Green Blog Welton Chang's Blog Vox in Sox MN Publius (Matthew Martin) Netblitz Dartmouth Official News Other Blogs Ampersand Atrios Arts & Letters Altercation Body and Soul Blog For America Brad DeLong Brad Plumer CalPundit Campus Nonsense Clarksphere Crooked Timber Cursor Daily Kos Dean Nation Dan Drezner The Front Line Instapundit Interesting Times Is That Legal? Talking Points Memo Lady-Likely Lawrence Lessig Lean Left Left2Right Legal Theory Matthew Yglesias Ms. Musings MWO Nathan Newman New Republic's &c. Not Geniuses Ornicus Oxblog Pandagon Political State Report Political Theory Daily Review Queer Day Roger Ailes SCOTUS blog Talk Left TAPPED Tacitus This Modern World Tough Democrat Untelevised Volokh Conspiracy Washington Note X. & Overboard Magazines, Newspapers and Journals Boston Globe Ideas Boston Review Chronicle of Higher Education Common Dreams Dissent In These Times Mother Jones New York Review of Books New York Times Salon Slate The American Prospect The Nation The New Republic The Progressive Tikkun Tom Paine Village Voice Washington Monthly Capitol Hill Media ABC's The Note American Journalism Review Columbia Journalism Review CQ Daily Howler Donkey Rising The Hill Medianews National Journal NJ Hotline NJ Wake-up call NJ Early Bird NJ Weekly Political Wire Roll Call Spinsanity Search Search the DFP  |
|||||||
The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of Dartmouth College or the Dartmouth Free Press.