It’s late Friday afternoon — here are a few things worth reading:
- Betcy Jose asks, with all of the attention on chemical weapons, why does it matter how people die in conflict?
- Sohail Hashmi and I agree we need stronger protection for civilians in conflict, but ignoring the use of chemical weapons is not the way to do it.
- David Petrasek is moderating and contributing to an excellent discussion of R2P and Syria at OpenGlobalRights.
- A go-to source for documents and links on Syria
- Trying to get to the bottom of this. There is a widening gap in reported regime casualties between the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (27,654 soldiers and 17,874 pro-regime militias) and the Syrian Center for Documentation of Violations (11,447).
And,
- This is not your grandparents’ Cold War: McCain is going to launch a response to Putin with his own op-ed in Pravda.
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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- Jon Westernhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/jwestern
- Jon Westernhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/jwestern
- Jon Westernhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/jwestern
- Jon Westernhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/jwestern
- Jon Westernhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/jwestern
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