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Summer 1999
• POST GLOBALIZATION
• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007
• MADE IN CHINA
• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY
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• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK
• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD
• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY
• PLANET OF SLUMS
• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
     OF FEAR
• THE OTHER
• POST-NATIONAL
    LITERATURE
• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
    CHANGE?
• THE RISE AND FALL OF
    AMERICA'S SOFT POWER
• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY
• SCULPTURE AND THE
     NEW SCIENCE
• BIOTECH AND THE
     NEW BABEL
• WAR THROUGH THE
     BACK DOOR
• ANTIAMERICANISM
• THE RISING SOFT POWER
     OF CHINA & INDIA
• THE BUSH DOCTRINE
• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
    WORLD
• AMERICA'S MIGHT
• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• ANTIGLOBOS
• HOT PEACE
• MODUS VIVENDI
• LOOKING NORTH
• FROM WELL HAVING TO
     WELL BEING
• POST-HUMAN HISTORY
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• THE GLOBAL MIND
• AFTER KOSOVO
• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO
• DEGLOBALIZATION?
• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
    [BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA
• BEYOND CAPITALISM
• ASIAN CRISIS
• CHINA: THE ASIAN
     RENAISSANCE
• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL
• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
    PICTURE
• AFTER THE END OF
    HISTORY
• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN
• HALF-A-HEGEMON
• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM
• HEIMAT
• Fall 1987
• Winter 1987
• Spring 1986
• Fall-Winter '84-'85
• Spring 1984


The Right To Intervention: Codified in Kosovo

Bernard Kouchner is the new United Nations governor of Kosovo. He was formerly the French Minister of Health and, in the government of Francois Mitterand, Undersecretary of State for Humanitarian Action.

A physician, Kouchner was the found of Medicins Sans Frontieres and Medecins Du Monde, two private French organizations that have mounted relief operations in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Yugloslavia and elsewhere.

This commentary, drawn from Kouchner's previous contributions to NPQ on "the right to intervention," is followed by a recent interview with Le Monde.

Pristina - Can we dream of a 21st century where the horrors of the 20th will not be repeated. Where Auschwitz or the mass exterminations that took place in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and later in Rwanda and Kosovo cannot happen again? The answer is a hopeful yes - if, as part of the emergent world order, a new morality can be codified in the "right to intervention" against abuses of national sovereignty.

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