Jean Bricmont

Outstanding figure of the anti-imperialist movement, Jean Bricmont is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Louvain (Belgium). He has just published Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War (Éditions Aden, 2005).

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Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End

Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left

by Jean Bricmont

Brussels (Belgium) | 27 December 2012

Unable to find a new ideological identity after the demise of its big Soviet brother, the European left has engulfed itself in societal issues at home and humanitarian interventionism abroad. In an inconsistent stance, it calls for the protection of peoples by U.S. imperialism. But how can it (…)

Bombing for a More Just World?

by Jean Bricmont

30 July 2009

While the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, promotes the implementation of the new juridical concept on the "responsibility to protect", the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto, invited four intellectuals to present their analyses for the enlightenment of member-state (…)

Axis for Peace

In Defence of International Law

by Jean Bricmont

19 January 2006

A figure of the anti-imperialist movement, Jean Bricmont, opened the round table discussion on humanitarian interference during the conference Axis for Peace 2005. In this text, taken from his most recent book, “Impérialisme humanitaire. Droits de l’homme, droit d’ingérence, droit du plus fort?” (…)

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