Humanitarian Challenges for World Diplomacy

The Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lectureship presents Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, \u27Humanitarian Challenges for World Diplomacy\u27.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1209/thumbnail.jp

Richard C. Holbrooke: AIDS: The Humanitarian Crisis

Richard C. Holbrooke, former Assistant Secretary of State and chief negotiator behind the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia. Holbrooke addresses contemporary and humanitarian issues and provides insights as to why these issues are important to people everywhere. Acclaimed by The New York Times as a master of impossible missions, Holbrooke became known as the world\u27s premier negotiator by arranging an unprecedented multiparty agreement, bringing the United States back into good standing with the United Nations. At the same time, he persuaded U.N. members to reduce the United States\u27 share of dues and assessments, convinced Congress to release $582 billion in unpaid U.N. assessments, and enlisted the aid of media mogul Ted Turner to pay the balance of those dues. For his work on the Dayton accords, Holbrooke received five Nobel Peace Prize nominations. His best-selling account of the negotiations, To End a War, was named one of the 10 best books of 1998 by The New York Times. Holbrooke began his foreign service career after graduating from Brown University in 1962. He served on the Vietnam staff of President Lyndon Johnson and as Peace Corps director in Morocco. President Jimmy Carter appointed him assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs in 1977, and President Clinton named him to that same office for European and Canadian affairs, making Holbrooke the only person ever to hold assistant secretary of state posts in two regions. Holbrooke has served as vice chairman of CS First Boston and as managing director of Lehman Brothers

Penetration, Overlay, Governmentality: The Evolving Role of NATO in the Western Balkan Security Dynamics

According to the Regional Complex Security Theory (RSCT) external involvement in regional security can take either the form of penetration or overlay. We theorise governmentality as the third form of external involvement aimed to responsibilise regions in order to govern them indirectly and at a distance. We illustrate our argument in a study of NATO's role in the Western Balkans since the dissolution of Yugoslavia. In particular, we posit that the predominant role of NATO in the region has evolved over time from penetration in the 1990s, through overlay in the early 2000s, to today's governmentality

Humanitarian Intervention in an Era of Pre-emptive Self -Defense

NoThe dichotomy between prohibitive law and moral responsibility is at the centre of debates about the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention. However, political interests remain an important factor not only in determining and tempering the humanitarian impulses of states, but also for gauging their more general adherence to the rule of law. The humanitarian intervention debate only has meaning in a context in which there is general, routine adherence to the non-interventionist norm of the international system, codified as Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. The `Bush Doctrine¿ of pre-emptive self-defence alters the political and politico-legal context that has until now given the humanitarian intervention debate its meaning and importance. Given this, together with a more general loosening of the strictures prohibiting or limiting the use of force, there is good cause for concern about the foundations of the post-1945 international order. The debate about humanitarian intervention can no longer abstract the tension between law and morality from a political arena that is facing such profound challenges