Use four concepts of structure. agency, realism and idialism to anylise the dark side of humanitarianism and military intervention
Please feel free to use more sources if needed, The Essay is 3000 words.
SOME Questions (just for information purpose and idea) FROM MY MODULE GUIDE:
*where does responsibility for the atrocity lie? The individual soldiers, the insurgents, the officers, the generals, the US President, Congress, the media, entertainment industry (films, games), the military-industrial complex, the American people? Explain this using concepts of structure, agency, realism and idealism.
* Examples I can use: Battle for Haditha (Documentary), Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Rwanda all examples I would like to use but feel free to add your ideas
* In what circumstances can soldiers kill civilians? (according to Crawford)
* What is the importance of structure/agency, according to Crawford, in understanding military atrocities and where responsibility lies for them?
* What are the three levels of collective moral responsibility for military atrocity and does this exculpate (take blame away from) individual soldiers? Crawford
*Does social convention not logic define why one act of killing is an atrocity (Haditha) and another is less atrocious (bombing cities) (p. 196)?
SOURSES
Must:
1)Paul Dixon, (2008 2nd edition) Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace – Chapter 2 but particularly pp. 32-39.
2) Paul Dixon, (2013) ‘There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong: Beyond Realism and Idealism in the Northern Ireland Peace Process’ Irish Political Studies.
3) Sean Kay (2014) America’s search for security: the triumph of idealism and the return of realism (Rowman and Littlefield).
Optional:
3) Neta Crawford (2007) ‘Individual and Collective Moral Responsibility for Systemic Military Atrocity’, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 15, 2.
4) Linda Polman, (2011) War Games, (Penguin) – is an interesting critique of the corruption of the aid industry.
5)Overseas Development Institute (2010) ‘A Reply to Linda Polman’ available here: https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/5914.pdf A Guardian review of Polman’s book: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/apr/25/humanitarian-aid-war-linda-polman) David
6)Kennedy, ‘Reassessing international humanitarianism: the dark sides’ in Anne Orford (2006) International Law and its Others, Cambridge University Press
7) Kenneth F. Englade, (2015) Meltdown in Haditha: The Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians by U.S. Marines and the Failure of Military Justice (McFarland).
8)Peter Oborne (2005) The Rise of Political Lying – an idealist perspective on deception.
This is to confirm that the writer has plagiarised word to word from this journal http://fsi.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/evnts/media/Crawford_JPP_6-07.pdf by Crowford. On The Paper : Look on: The concept of structure and The concept of agency . Please bear in mind that there are other sources that he has used and copied word to word as well in the other sections.