And the structure of the United Nations ensures a balance of powers rather than principled decision making
A fair reservation. It's not fool-proof, I'll grant that. One might not be able to tap into the UN's mystical aura of legitimacy when needed, and you'd be right to point out that just about any other international forum we might care to set up on a sufficiently wide-ranging, multilateral basis would act similarly. It's a... given constraint on action on the international playing field. How broad a coalition can be created and psychologically maintained with the UN so paralysed would have to be decided on a case-to-case basis, and that will in itself generally throw us into the world of strategic calculation.
The principle of humanitarian intervention seems sound enough.
Well, I won't specifically dispute that -- I can't possibly comment on matters of the spirit world.
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Date: 2013-05-13 12:59 am (UTC)A fair reservation. It's not fool-proof, I'll grant that. One might not be able to tap into the UN's mystical aura of legitimacy when needed, and you'd be right to point out that just about any other international forum we might care to set up on a sufficiently wide-ranging, multilateral basis would act similarly. It's a... given constraint on action on the international playing field. How broad a coalition can be created and psychologically maintained with the UN so paralysed would have to be decided on a case-to-case basis, and that will in itself generally throw us into the world of strategic calculation.
The principle of humanitarian intervention seems sound enough.
Well, I won't specifically dispute that -- I can't possibly comment on matters of the spirit world.