Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Berdal ARAL

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Civil War,Asymmetrical Wars of Aggression,Armed Attack,Realist Paradigm,Humanitarian Intervention.

Özet: This article at first emphasizes the failure of the literature on war to grapple with the humanitarian disasters caused by wars. It also argues that civil as well as international wars that have brought havoc to the non-Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War are essentially the result of two determining factors: first, the rise of political formations in the form of nation-states in Asia and Africa that are conceived as being the very embodiment of the high interests and exalted ideals of the "nation, " and, linked to this, a nationalist narrative that has too often precluded minorities; second, imperialistic interventions. The point is made throughout this article that asymmetric wars of aggression have figured as the greatest threat to world peace in the modern era, and, in particular, alter September 11 (2001). Waged between disproportionate powers, as in the case of US-led military occupation of Afghanistan (2001-) and Iraq (2003-) and the Israeli assault on Lebanon (July/August 2006), such wars, thanks to modern technology, have rendered "invisible" the act of war and the devastation that it brings.

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