The School of Public Policy at Central European University
cordially invites you to a Public Lecture by
Peter Woodward, Emeritus Professor of Politics,
University of Reading, UK
In some quarters in the West the end of the Cold War was followed by a decade in which interventions were increasingly seen as both necessary and justifiable, exemplified in 1999 by Tony Blair’s speech in Chicago on the "Doctrine of the International Community" which questioned the sanctity of national sovereignty. This presentation will discuss "hard" and "soft" interventions in the Horn of Africa since 1990. It considers the motives for intervention in the various conflicts and humanitarian crises that have arisen repeatedly; the manner of the interventions that have taken place; and assesses the outcomes. It concludes that interventions hitherto have had very mixed outcomes; and that policy makers need to show a greater understanding of the situations in which they are intervening and the limitations on what they may actually be able to achieve.
Peter Woodward is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Reading, UK. He taught at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, before joining Reading, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Natal (Durban) and the American University in Cairo. He has written widely on north-east Africa, his most recent book being Crisis in the Horn of Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2013). He is a former editor of African Affairs, The Journal of the Royal African Society; and a former regular contributor to the BBC World Service. He has been consulted by a number of governments including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the UK and the US Department of State.
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