Human Rights and Nation-building: Future Imperatives of U.S. Foreign Policy

摘要

The 1992 deployment of U.S. military forces to Somalia presented a series of newchallenges to the United States and the world community. Foremost among these are the questions of what criteria will be used for embarking on future humanitarian operations and for terminating such interventions. With the demise of the Soviet Union, the principle threat to this nation and the rest of the developed world is regional instability stemming from deteriorating socioeconomic conditions. The United States and the enlightened world community are faced with both realist and idealist foreign policy imperatives to intervene in selected human emergencies. A formal international framework under United Nations auspices is needed to evaluate human emergencies and provide a wide range of responsive actions. Among