Does Regime Change Carry the Responsibility of Nation-Building?
Another idea raised in InPrint and at other Council forums was that to be morally acceptable, regime change has to be coupled with nation-building. As the journalist Tom Friedman puts it, “If you break it, you own it.” Likewise, Brian Orend, in an article for Ethics & International Affairs, suggested that because war so radically alters the victim state’s political system and society, a just war must seek to restore more than simply the status quo; it must also create conditions for a “more secure possession of rights.” There are no clear guidelines on ways of achieving justice after war – this despite recent attempts following interventions in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, and Afghanistan. Prior to the war on Iraq, there was some talk in the Bush administration of studying successful historical models – such as the Marshall Plan for Europe and the occupation of Japan – for inspiration. But as Tony Lang and Mary-Lea Cox wrote in InPrint at the end of last year, the German and Japanese ex
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