Author: David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith
Twenty-first-century political crises stretching from Europe to the Middle East
and the Asia–Pacific have undermined the worldview that governed post-Cold
War western thinking about a liberal end of history. This worldview assumed that
shared norms and transnational institutions would transform the state based-order.
In this context, the use of force is considered appropriate only for humanitarian
ends meeting a set of predetermined axioms laid down in chapter 7 of the UN
Charter. Yet for any strategy to be effective—in an international order subject to
change—a clear political aim is required, which might deviate from the general
rule. Preoccupied with universal …read more
Source: Chatham House
