INTERNATIONAL: Should force be used to provide aid?

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  • Controversy origins
  • Humanitarian interventions
  • UN Charter restrictions
  • Towards greater interventionism
  • Rwanda and Kosovo
  • From 'right' to 'responsibility'
  • Canadian initiative
  • Redefining sovereignty
  • Resistance to R2P
  • Proposed implementation strategy
  • Ferocious resistance
  • International R2P endorsements
  • African Union
  • World Summit
  • Ambiguous legal status
  • Security Council role
  • Vague R2P scope
  • Current R2P status
  • Anticipated inoperability?
  • Russian and Chinese reservations
  • New UN R2P push?
  • Crisis-related setbacks
  • Darfur and R2P ambiguity
  • Burma broad strokes
  • Russia-Georgia complication
  • UN-regional disconnect
  • Persistent sovereignty sensitivities

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