From a frustrated college student

You would think that writing three papers on interrelated subjects would be quick and simple. No.

I'm going to be researching over the winter break more on the global health implications of intellectual property rights. My apologies for this feeble post!

No worries, I'll make it up to you other law-oriented, pro-free market, global health, international relations nerds...

Concessions

Assessing intentions behind R2P

History, interdependence, resources, regime type, level of crisis, public opinion, etc.

Concessions:

Who will intervene? Agents of intervention in UN helmets ultimately go back to the security council

Can't evade the security council because they approve peacekeeping or enforcement. Also, SC happen to be the countries with the means to intervene.

Means of the powerful + desperation of the weak = maintenance of status quo.

Civil Society and Public Interest Diplomacy

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6341&l=1

Reasons for intervention:
Genocide
War crimes
Ethnic cleansing
Crimes against humanity (vs crimes that shock to consciousness of humanity)

R2P should come from Security Council

More Later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYEORvklaA&feature=related

More Later...

http://deoxy.org/rst.htm

Happy Birthday, TenNinety!

Hello! My name is Andrea. And I want to change the world!

The hubris! How I wish I could be less idealistic! This enthusiasm for achieving my goal has grown into a career in international relations, global health, and law.

To introduce myself, I am a daughter of St. Louis living in New Jersey. I have worked in New York City at Medecins Sans Frontieres, the single most influential experience of my adult life. My interests include: family, good food, hard work, persistence, innovation, and my generation.

A generic mash up of fashion, geography, time periods, celebrity, and music, the young adult 'Hipster' fad has overtaken the country. Slowly, city-by-city, crept Hipster moral relativism, even apathy. A complacency I attribute to conformity driven by internet homogenization (though I agree correlation does not imply causation).

The irony: There is no blanketing theme which unites we young adults. Such a culture of individualism is unique and self-destructive. However prosperous one is individually, the ripple effect left behind can be devastating. However, ad-hoc individual measures are no match for the breadth of a mass movement.

My generation will lead the country in finishing two wars, quelling an environmental crisis, and brokering peace around the world. We all want to know that our future needs will be met with minimal bloodshed, climate change, and poverty.

In seeing recent protests in Iran, I have been moved to act NOW.

As Thomas Friedman put it, "America needs a jolt of the idealism, activism and outrage (it must be in there) of Generation Q. That’s what twentysomethings are for — to light a fire under the country."