In the long-term, it is also more alarming for Russia than the UN Security
Council debates on Syria, as such debates did not start and will not end with this
crisis. They involve a genuine controversy between human security-centered and
sovereignty-centered legal and ethical approaches to international security. The
growing importance of the human security agenda notwithstanding, this controversy
is constantly reignited by the highly mixed experience and consequences of a
number of external military interventions and foreign-driven state-building
experiments.