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Jon Western

Arms Control & Disarmament Sep 9, 2013 Snapshot

A Taboo Worth Protecting

Some opponents of a strike in Syria contend that the norm against chemical weapons is pointless, since they generally produce far fewer fatalities than conventional...

Sohail H. Hashmi and Jon Western

Chemical weapons Syria Iraq Kurds Halabja

Syria Mar 26, 2013 Snapshot

R2P After Syria

If the 2011 intervention in Libya revived the responsibility to protect (R2P), the lack of intervention in Syria has seemed to bury it. But the doctrine was never...

Jon Western and Joshua S. Goldstein

Syria - Foreign Affairs

Law & Institutions November/December 2011 Essay

Humanitarian Intervention Comes of Age

Despite the fall of the Qaddafi regime in Libya, humanitarian intervention still has plenty of critics. But their targets are usually the early, ugly missions of the...

Jon Western and Joshua S. Goldstein

Political Development Jun 23, 2011 Snapshot

The Balkans After Mladic

In an update to their 2009 Foreign Affairs article, "The Death of Dayton," McMahon and Western write that Mladic's recent arrest is an opportunity for the...

Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western

Bosnia Herzegovina - Foreign Affairs

Peacekeeping September/October 2009 Essay

The Death of Dayton

Bosnia was once a poster child for successful postwar reconstruction; today, it is on the verge of collapse. The 1995 Dayton accord ended a war, but it also created a...

Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western

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