At the point of a gun : democratic dreams and armed intervention / David Rieff.

Writing from the front lines of the hot wars of the post-Cold War world -- the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times Magazine -- Rieff witnessed firsthand most of the armed interventions waged in the name of human rights and democratization....

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Main Author: Rieff, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, c2005.
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505 0 |a pt. 1: The UN and international relations leading p to Iraq. Hope is not enough -- A new age of liberal imperialism? --An age of genocide -- In defense of Afro-pessimism -- Lost Kosovo -- Goodbye, the new world order. -- pt. 2: The Iraq War and its aftermath. The lives they lived : collateral damage -- The specter of imperialism : the marriage of the human-rights Left and the new imperialist Right -- End of empire -- The way we live now : a notion of war -- Were sanctions right? -- Blueprint for a mess -- The Shiite surge. 
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