Thursday 28 October 2010

Multilateral Conspiracy

Multilateral diplomacy is about talk and argument and involve a highlevel of conspiracy according to Jeniffer Mitzen (2005) . The Multilateral diplomacy that surrounded NATO's intervention in Kosovo is widely perceived as legitimate base on humanitarian intervention consideration but when compared to the American-led coalition's Second Iraq War is widely perceived as illegitimate (Johnstone,2004) because of the way the US conducted its multilateral diplomacy without UN sanction (Rubin,2003) and under the pretext of going after Iraq's WMD . The late Dr. David Kelly had already argued and presented his findings and confirmed that there were no WMD in Iraq, so to shut him up he was bumped off, claimed to be a suicide by the establishment .
Where legitimation is accomplished through argument, future disagreement must always be possible, but it must not devolve into violence that can destroy the social order ( J.Mitzen) ,and one would add avoid concerted efforts by interested parties to mislead UN member states in multilateral diplomacy and loses all credibility in international relations.

Jennifer Mitzen : Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Public Spheres, in American Political Science Review, vol.99, No.3. August 2005

Ian Johnstone (2004), US-UN  Relations After Iraq : The End of the World (Order) as we Know It ?, in European Journal of International Law  15(December) :813-38

James Rubin (2003),  Stumbling Into War  , Foreign Affairs (September/October) :46-66

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