Building on the humanitarian interventionism of the 1990s, a vast anti-genocide movement, largely U.S.-based, is stirring students and movie stars alike.
And why invest in specific skills that fallible businesses think they need when Britain suffers from a shortage of employees trained in general disciplines like maths that can be applied across a wide range of industries?The new interventionism is one of the few areas on which all three main parties agree making these questions all the more pressing.
It has led us to an easier acceptance of "liberal interventionism", founded on the assumption that we in the west are alone virtuous and qualified to distinguish political right from wrong – and the conviction that our self-evidently virtuous ends must justify whatever means we employ, lighting up a bomber flare path from Dresden to Baghdad to Tripoli.
The Conservatives saw Mr Miliband's move as a throwback to the left-wing interventionism of the 1970s, accusing Labour of imposing a tax rise on business and higher gas and electricity bills.
On Tuesday, Cruz outlined in some detail his case against the interventionism of the Rubio-McCain-Graham wing, saying that Egypt and Libya were better off with the secular dictators that previously ruled those countries, and — more surprisingly — that Bashar al-Assad, who is responsible for hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, should remain in power.
LONDON — It will be two decades next year since the outbreak of the Bosnian war — and since the debate on interventionism began to rage, becoming one of the most acrimonious moral questions of our times.
The scope of this belated next book moves from one strike to the entirety of post-9/11 world history, with chapters on liberal interventionism and the war on terror, the rise of neoliberalism and its 2008 bankruptcy, the prospects of "21st-century socialism" and the contemporary Arab revolt.
For he not only hijacked the arguments of liberal interventionism to justify invading Iraq; he then went on personally to embrace Gaddafi, the Saddam of north Africa.
On the economy, and on foreign interventionism, he says the UK should not "sit on our hands and do nothing" about Islamic State.
