Indeed, he can be plausibly described as being chiefly responsible for formulating and successfully propagating the doctrine of “humanitarian intervention.” That idea captured the imagination of much of the elite of the developed world over the course of the 1990’s, and provided the moral rationale for the principal Western military interventions of the post-Cold War period, from Bosnia to Iraq.
外交政策却是另一回事。不管人们对布莱尔怎么看，在国际事务中，他是一个举足轻重的领导人。事实上，似乎可以说他对 “人道干预”主义的系统阐述和成功宣传起了主要作用。这一理念在上世纪九十年代引起了发达国家许多精英们的极大兴趣，并为冷战后西方的主要军事干预¾从波黑到伊拉克，提供了道德依据。