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The Manley O. Hudson Lecture: Why Regime Change is (Almost Always) A Bad Idea

2004; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 98; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3181642

2161-7953

W. Michael Reisman,

Global Peace and Security Dynamics

Every impulse to protect the weak and help the infirm is noble. The impulse to use the means at our disposal to liberate a people from a government that poses no imminent or prospective threat to us, but is so despotic, violent, and vicious that those suffering under it cannot shake it off, is also noble. The action that gives effect to that impulse may sometimes be internationally lawful. It may sometimes be feasible. It is often—but not always— misconceived.