Episode 4 Part 2 - Acts of Genocide Barely Gettin' By

The end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the US ongoing debates about how, if it all, it can promote democracy outside its own borders.


ALSO – keep an eye out for a bonus episode, released Friday, where Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt from RMIT University about the UN’s role in peace and war in the 90s.


Links
Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Basic Books, 2002
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/samantha-power/a-problem-from-hell/9780465050895/


Daniel Bessner, “The Fog of Intervention,” The New Republic, September 4, 2019
https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-review


Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/


Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, September 2019.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention

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