Syria updates:
- The White House’s public assessment of last week’s chemical weapons attack.
- Deborah Avant — Action is not synonymous with intervention.
- Is there a moral argument for intervention?
- Tony Lang unpacks some of his comments on various threads hereat Duck below with his own post at Carnegie on the case for punitive action.
- Given all the discussion surrounding chemical weapons, Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction ed, by Sohail Hashmi and Steven Lee is the most extensive ethical IR discussion on the topic and should be required reading.
- A set of commentaries from CNAS
- Tim Hoyt adds some suggestions if, indeed, US airstrikes are imminent.
- The public wants the administration to go through Congress… something that didn’t go so well for Cameron last night.
- Mark Kersten’s take on why the ICC hasn’t been a factor in the discussions on Syria.
And,
- In light of all the news, it looks like Conflict Kitchen will soon be expanding its menu….
Jon Western has spent the last fifteen years teaching IR in liberal arts colleges at Mount Holyoke College and the Five Colleges in western Massachusetts. He has an eclectic range of intellectual interests but often writes on international security, U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, and human rights. He occasionally shares his thoughts about professional life in liberal arts colleges. In his spare time he coaches middle school soccer, mentors the local high school robotics team, skis, and sails.
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