IB Global Politics: Can the international community violate Syrian sovereignty?

IB Global Politics / OMUN Debate: Sovereignty

When? Wednesday 26 February from 6.00 to 9.00pm

Where? Room 101

Who? IB Global Politics students from Bermuda High School (Bermuda), International School of Panama (Panama), North Broward Preparatory School (United States), and Overseas Family School (Singapore)

The debate will occur online from 7.00 to 8.00pm. You'll need your laptops in order to participate. We'll use the hour before for final prep (and pizza) and the hour after for a structured debriefing. Please RSVP for this event by commenting on this post. I've included some initial resources below, but please consider these as the starting point for your inquiry, not the inclusive list of preparatory information. 

Video

Resources

1. Boyer, J. (2012). Sovereignty-What is it? How do you get it? Lecture presented at GEOG 1014: World Regions in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Retrieved June 7, 2012, from http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/3.3.1-sovereignty-what-is/id481684171?i=108214928
2. Carberry, S., Suarez, R., & Amos, D. (Writers). (2009, July 6). The Responsibility to protect: Preventing mass atrocities [Radio series]. Minneapolis, MN: Public Radio International (PRI) Retrieved from https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/responsibility-to-protect/id385770494?mt=10 
3. Crisis in Syria. (n.d.). International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect. Retrieved from http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/crises/crisis-in-syria 
4. Cook, S. A. (2013, August 30). In trying to help Syria, an intervention would destroy it. Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-trying-to-help-syria-an-intervention-would-destroy-it/2013/08/30/ee0b2ab4-1014-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html
5. Doyle, M. W. (2011). The folly of protection. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved April 18, 2012, from http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67666/michael-w-doyle/the-folly-of-protection 
6. The Economist. (2009, July 23). Responsibility to protect: An idea whose time has come—and gone? The Economist. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/node/14087788 
7. Evans, G., & Sanhoun, M. (2002). The responsibility to protect. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved April 18, 2012, from http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/58437/gareth-evans-and-mohamed-sahnoun/the-responsibility-to-protect?nocache=1 
8. Evans, G. (2011, December). End of the argument. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved April 18, 2012, from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/gareth_evans_end_of_the_argument?page=full 
9. Global Politics Online Debates. (2014, January 21). Sovereignty: Can the International Community Violate Syrian Sovereignty? Retrieved from http://globalpoliticsonlinedebate.blogspot.sg/2014/01/sovereignty-can-international-community.html 
10. Haass, R. N. (2006, February 17). Sovereignty and globalization. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved from http://www.cfr.org/sovereignty/sovereignty-globalisation/p9903
11. Homans, C. (2011). Responsibility to protect: A short history. Foreign Policy. Retrieved from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/11/responsibility_to_protect_a_short_history?page=full 
12. Husain, E. (2013, August 30). Why Western intervention in Syria will leave chaos. CNN. Retrieved from http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/28/opinion/syria-husain-opinion/index.html
13. Mingst, K. A., & Karns, M. P. (2011). The United Nations in the 21st century. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (link)
14. Syria conflict. (2014, January 22). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17258397 
15. United Nations Association of the United States of America (Producer). (2009, August 11). UN General Assembly debate on implementing the responsibility to protect [Video]. Retrieved May 1, 2012, from http://youtu.be/rGCIAXNswfU
16. Western, J., & Goldstein, J. (2013). R2P after Syria. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved March 27, 2013, from http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139080/jon-western-and-joshua-s-goldstein/r2p-after-syria?page=show