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Guest lecturer on IR 389
Exciting news! This week Ayse Yircali, the executive director of TESEV, will visit Human Rights in World Affairs. TESEV is one of the most prominent NGO’s in Turkey and has published several important studies on topics ranging from democratization and ethnic politics in Turkey to Turkey’s changing foreign policy and visibility in the Middle East.…
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More on the dilemmas facing humanitarian workers in conflict zones
A while back I wrote about the difficulty for third-parties of remaining neutral/impartial in conflict zones (here). These debates flare mostly in the context of the war in Syria. Yesterday there were more news on the dilemmas that humanitarian workers in Syria face. The journal Foreign Policy obtained records of how many Syrians the World Food Programme…
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Rwanda 20 Years Later
2014 is the 20th anniversary of the greatest human rights atrocity since the Cold War ended: the Rwandan Genocide (2014 is also the 100th anniversary of World War I). For most atrocities during the Cold War we blame the US-USSR rivalry, but it is very sobering to remember that even after the Soviets collapsed and the…
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A great blog on human rights
Filip Spagnoli is a “writer and philosopher” who writes a very good blog on human rights around the world. If you are interested in these matters follow his blog. I do. Here is the link to his blog.
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Short-term thinking in Libya hurts diplomacy elsewhere.
Why has Russia blocked UN Security Council’s authorization of force to stop bloodshed in Syria. There are several obstacles to the resolution of the Syrian Civil War (mutual fear among ethnic groups, Iran’s patronage of Assad, rise of Islamist radicals), but a big obstacle is Russia’s opposition at the UN Security Council. Russia’s material interests…
Kerim Can Kavakli 