Category: Peace Review

Peace Review : A Journal of Social Justice

Redefining Security in the Face of Terrorism (PDF)

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The tragic events of September 11, 2001 have created unprecedented challenges for those who traditionally have been critical of U.S. military intervention and have allied themselves with the peace movement. For the first time in the lives of most Americans, the United States has found i tself under attack….

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East Timor’s Tragedy and Triumph

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East Timor is largely in ruins as a result of the Indonesian-led destruction and massacres of September 1999. Yet the East Timorese are finally free. That such carnage was allowed to take place is yet another indictment of U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia, yet the ultimate victory of the population of East Timor is a triumphant reflection of the power of ordinary people—in both East Timor and around the world—to triumph against enormous odds….

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NATO’s Rush to War in Yugoslavia

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‘NATO’s Rush to War in Yugoslavia’, Peace Review 11:3 (Fall 1999): 447-454.

The United States-led war against Yugoslavia continued for more than ten weeks despite the many ways it could have been avoided or ended sooner, and despite the opposition and uneasiness it generated even among its initial supporters. This essay outlines some of the reasons why the war was wrong from a moral, legal and utilitarian perspective.

http://stephenzunes.org/articles/PeaceReview1999NATOsRushtoWar.pdf