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http://www.newsweek.com/id/234891
Joshua Kurlantzick konstatiert, dass sich die Demokratie
weltweit auf dem Rückzug befinde. Oft tragen Kurlantzick
zufolge eben jene Vertreter der Mittelschicht die
Verantwortung, die noch kurz zuvor für den Sturz
autoritärer Regime gesorgt hätten. "Why has this
happened? In many cases because the early leaders of the
young democracies that emerged in the 1990s failed to
recognize that free societies require strong institutions,
a loyal opposition to the ruling party, and a willingness
to compromise. Instead, they saw democracy as just
semiregular votes; after they won, they then used all tools
of power to dominate their countries and to hand out
benefits to their allies or tribe." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co
ntent/article/2010/03/11/AR201003110365
3.html
Durch die regelmäßige Verwendung unbemannter Drohnen im
Kampf gegen Taliban in Afghanistan und Pakistan stellen
sich die beteiligten CIA-Beamten nach Ansicht von Gary
Solis vom "Georgetown University Law Center" außerhalb
internationalen Rechts und müssen deshalb als
"ungesetzliche Kombattanten" (unlawful combatant)
kategorisiert werden. "In terms of international armed
conflict, those CIA agents are, unlike their military
counterparts but like the fighters they target, unlawful
combatants. No less than their insurgent targets, they are
fighters without uniforms or insignia, directly
participating in hostilities, employing armed force
contrary to the laws and customs of war. Even if they are
sitting in Langley, the CIA pilots are civilians violating
the requirement of distinction, a core concept of armed
conflict, as they directly participate in hostilities." |
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http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/arti
kel/?ressort=tz&dig=2010/03/04/a0160&cH
ash=3518f70f691
"Den Schlüssel zum islamischen Extremismus hat die
Konfliktforschung", schreibt der Schriftsteller Ralf Bönt
in einem Essay "über den Missbrauch des Religiösen nach
dem 11. September 2001". "Die religiöse Rückkopplung des
11. September ist daher wohl doch nur eine so
vorübergehende Erscheinung, die in den Nervenbahnen des
Zeitgeistes verebbt wie ein Rausch. Gut so: Die äußerst
spannenden Ergebnisse der Konfliktforschung versteht man eh
nüchtern am besten." |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35710411/ns
/world_news-mideastn_africa/
Das Attentat auf den Hamas-Offiziellen in Dubai könnte der
"Associated Press" zufolge zum letzten seiner Art werden.
Angesichts der modernen Überwachungstechnologien und des
Internets sei eine Geheimhaltung derartiger Operationen
nahezu aussichtslos. "The spread of technology of the kind
that uncovered the Dubai operation has permanently altered
the rules, wrote Yossi Melman, Haaretz's intelligence
correspondent. 'The conclusion could be that the era of
heroic operations in the style of James Bond movies is
close to its end.'" |
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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/a
rticle/final-decline-of-the-west/400642
.html
Dominique Moisi hält den Niedergang des Westens im
globalen Machtgefüge für unaufhaltsam. "What we are
witnessing can be seen is a return to the past with the
West returning to its old place in the world before the
start of China's long process of historical decline at the
beginning of the 19th century. The West's long period of
global dominance is ending, encouraged and accelerated by
its own mistakes and irresponsible behavior. We are
entering a new historical cycle in which there will be
proportionally fewer Westerners, more Africans and Middle
Easterners and - with greater relevance economically and
strategically - many more Asians." |
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/234122
Die globale Instabilität des 21. Jahrhunderts wird nach
Ansicht von Richard N. Haass nicht von den Supermächten,
sondern von gescheiterten Staaten wie Jemen ausgehen. Der
Westen sollte Vorbereitungen treffen und seine "nation-
building"-Kapazitäten systematisch ausbauen. "Buttressing
post-Saddam Iraq cost a great deal, possibly more than was
warranted. And many lessons should be gleaned from this
experience. But we should be careful not to learn the wrong
lesson and rule out helping weak states. Shoring them up
may not be cheap, but it is less expensive than the
alternatives of occupying them or ignoring them. As is
often the case, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure." |
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2
010/02/22/planet_war
"Foreign Policy" macht in einer Foto-Reihe auf 33
bewaffnete Konflikte aufmerksam. "From the bloody civil
wars in Africa to the rag-tag insurgiences in Southeast
Asia, 33 conflicts are raging around the world today, and
it's often innocent civilians who suffer the most." |
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http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100222
_utility_assassination
Nach der Ermordung eines Hamas-Offiziellen in Dubai
analysiert George Friedman die Rolle von Attentaten in der
internationalen Politik. "We are not writing this as
pacifists; we do not believe the killing of enemies is to
be avoided. And we certainly do not believe that the
morally incoherent strictures of what is called
international law should guide any country in protecting
itself. What we are addressing here is the effectiveness of
assassination in waging covert warfare. Too frequently, it
does not, in our mind, represent a successful solution to
the military and political threat posed by covert
organizations." |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree
/2010/jan/22/yemen-lessons-from-somalia
Der Fall Somalia zeigt nach Ansicht von Murithi Mutiga,
welche Fehler die internationale Gemeinschaft beim Umgang
mit der Al-Qaida-Gefahr in Jemen vermeiden sollte. "The
failure of the numerous interventions by the US and EU to
resolve the Somalia crisis illustrates the inadequacies of
a foreign policy approach that focuses too narrowly on
short-term crises - such as piracy and terrorism. As Brian
Whitaker has pointed out, the beneficiaries of this aid are
often just a handful of leaders such as Yemen's Ali
Abdullah Saleh, who the west sees as a partner they can
work with but who view implementation of meaningful reforms
as a threat to their own power." |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2
010/0122/New-study-argues-war-deaths-ar
e-often-overestimated
Die Verfasser des neuen "Human Security Report" der "Simon
Fraser University" in Vancouver sind zu dem Schluss
gekommen, dass die Zahl der Opfer kriegerischer
Auseinandersetzungen aus politischen und humanitären
Gründen oft viel zu hoch eingeschätzt werde. "For
instance, the Human Security Report, produced at Simon
Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, claims
that the widely cited death toll of 5.4 million in
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is double what it should
be. The hotly contested report calls into question the
larger estimate, made by the International Rescue Committee
(IRC), and alludes to controversies surrounding death tolls
in Darfur and Iraq. It also questions the most general
assumptions about conflict, from how deadly war is to
whether the number of war dead can even be counted." |
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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp
?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=110
622
Politikwissenschaftler Joseph S. Nye hält militärische
Macht trotz aller Einschränkungen für ein weiterhin
wichtiges Instrument zur Aufrechterhaltung der
internationalen Ordnung. "Military power remains important
because it structures world politics. It is true that in
many relationships and issues, military force is
increasingly difficult or costly for states to use. But the
fact that military power is not always sufficient in
particular situations does not mean that it has lost the
ability to structure expectations and shape political
calculations." |
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/229869/outpu
t/print
Katie Paul analysiert verschiedene internationale
Konflikte, die alle belegten, dass die traditionellen
Kategorien von "Sieg" und "Niederlage" zur Beschreibung der
Realität zunehmend untauglich sind. "Partly, that's
because the meaning of victory itself is changing. Even
military routs have become divorced from political
resolution, prompting a rise in 'frozen conflicts' that
seem to drag on through endless cycles of ceasefires,
stalemates, and resurgences without ever properly
concluding, says [Page Fortna, a political scientist at
Columbia University who researches war outcomes]. 'Because
of changing norms about what is acceptable to gain through
warfare, issues that were once resolved militarily are now
often left unresolved,' she says." |
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18. März 2010
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