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ID095430
Title ProperSaviors and sovereigns
Other Title Informationthe rise and fall of humanitarianism
LanguageENG
AuthorMazower, Mark
Publication2010.
Summary / Abstract (Note)O n November 9, 2001, George W. Bush created a new public holiday-World Freedom Day. The United States, he explained, would lead the global fight for "liberty, freedom and the universal struggle for human rights"; it would try to help the "more than two billion people" still living under repressive regimes. The idea that America could, or should, do this had informed a certain kind of Washington mind-set throughout the Cold War. But after the Berlin Wall came down, freedom's crusaders increasingly set their eyes not so much on Communism as on violators of human rights in general. They unfurled the banner of humanitarianism and, righteously, scorned the cowards and skeptics who wanted to keep America's powder dry.
`In' analytical NoteWorld Affairs US Vol. 172, No. 4; Mar-Apr 2010: p39-48
Journal SourceWorld Affairs US Vol. 172, No. 4; Mar-Apr 2010: p39-48
Key WordsHumanitarianism ;  Sovereigns ;  Post Cold War Regime ;  Realism ;  Somalia