Small Wars Survey for 2012
01.09.2012 at 10:55am
- Great powers (and the US is certainly one) tend to privilege stability or order over justice or just relations. To maintain order and stability the US has supported dictators and regimes that if we had privileged justice we would not have supported. We know the argument that one does what is possible. But justice deferred becomes a festering sore and source of instability eventually. So rather than having to choose between inappropriately interfering in the life of another country or being isolationist and concentrating only on ourselves, how do we creatively engage the larger world so as to increase justice?
- What can the United States actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building?
- Are their gaps and disconnects between what the United States says and what it does, how it wants to be perceived, and how it is perceived?
- What should be the United States military role in foreign policy?
- Outside of the United States mlitary, what other institutions MUST be fixed in order for the United States foreign policy to be successful?
- What reforms are needed within the United States military?
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