Whose Problems Are These Anyway? A Response to Roland Paris

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Notes

1. Robert W. Cox, ‘Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory’, Millennium ces, States and World Orders: Beyo, Vol.10, No.2, 1981, pp.126981,

2. Ibid., pp.1288.

3. Ibid., p.129.

4. Roland Paris, ‘The “Responsibility to Protect” and the Structural Problems of Preventive Humanitarian Intervention’, International Peacekeeping, Vol.21, No.5, 2014, pp.569–603.

5. Ibid., p. 574, emphasis in original.

6. Ibid., p.593.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Mutimer is Chair and Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. His research considers issues of contemporary international security through lenses provided by critical social theory, as well as inquiring into the reproduction of security in and through popular culture. Much of that work has focused on weapons proliferation as a reconfigured security concern in the post-cold war era, and has tried to open possibilities for alternative means of thinking about the security problems related to arms more generally. In the past few years this programme of research has concentrated on small arms and light weapons. More recently he has turned his attention to the politics of the global war on terror, and of the regional wars around the world presently being fought by Canada and its allies.