Essay on Darfur & Essay on the World Bank
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This essay discusses the difficulties of arriving at and implementing multilateral approaches through the United Nations (UN) Security Council to the catastrophic humanitarian crisis which has developed in the Darfur region of western Sudan since 2003. Multilateralism refers to a process whereby interested nation states seek solutions to complex international problems --such as trade disputes, nuclear proliferation concerns or human rights violations--by acting in concert. The concern expressed by many Europeans and others on the international stage about an alleged decline in multilateralism reflects fears over the consequences of unilateral actions by the United States, the world's only superpower. From the standpoint of the United States, multilateralism is often seen, especially during the administrations of President George Bush, as presenting obstacles against serving the vital national interests of the United States. Multilateral approaches have in the past produced optimum solutions for solving some international problems, such as the use of the UN to thwart Saddam Hussein's aggression in the Persian Gulf in 1990-1991 and in defeating (outside the UN) Serbian ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. During, however, the Cold War and subsequently multilateral approaches through the UN and outside the UN have often foundered over a lack of international consensus and will. The UN has achieved only minuscule gains in add
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of the solution. That's stupid because the African Union's forces need logistical and financial support from the world community if they are going to be effective in Darfur (Africans, 2005, March 17, p. NA). A
number of commentators have noted that other Arab/Muslim nations
have expressed little or no interest in the plight of their fellow Muslim civilians in Darfur.
Dixon pointed out that some left-wing commentators have accused the United States, in bringing pressure on Sudan to rein in the Janjaweed, really has an ulterior motive --i.e. to build an international consensus in favor of an American or UN sponsored invasion of the area with the aim of seizing the petroleum resources of Darfur and perhaps Sudan itself (pp. 3-4). The United States has more than enough on its hands in Iraq and elsewhere (Iran, North Korea, etc.) to make this accusation specious. Actually, the United States has behaved much more responsibly vis-a-vis the Darfur crisis than many other nations, including France, Russia and China. Dixon quoted former U.S. Secretary of State Chester Crocker to the effect that without active American leadership, peace will have little chance in Darfur (p. 5).
The central problem, as Save Darfur pointed out, is that
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Some common words found in the essay are:
World Bank, Security Council, Mallaby Bank's, International Crisis, Bank's Presidents, World Economist, Robert McNamara, Sudanese Christians, Yasugi Mieno, Rivers Network, world bank, security council, sudanese government, 2005 march, human rights, darfur crisis, 2005 april, et al, kraske et al, 2005 18, third world, 2004 october 25, boston south press, ed 50 pp, 1996 june 29,
Approximate Word count = 5232
Approximate Pages = 21 (250 words per page)
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