Synopses & Reviews
The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. While there are studies of each individual case of intervention--in East Pakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo--there is no single work that examines them comprehensively in a comparative framework.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Humanitarian Intervention and International Society
India as Rescuer? Order versus Justice in the Bangladesh War of 1971
Vietnam's Intervention in Cambodia: The triumph of realism over common humanity?
Good or bad precedent? Tanzania's Intervention in Uganda
A Solidarist Movement in International Society? The case of Safe Havens and 'No-Fly' Zones in Iraq
From Famine Relief to 'Humanitarian War'; the US and UN Intervention in Somalia
Global Bystanders to Genocide: International Society and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
The Limit of Humanitarian Intervention from the Air: the cases of Bosnia and Kosovo
A New Solidarity? Humanitarian Intervention and the Future of International Society