Purpose of Intervention Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force

Name: Purpose of Intervention Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force
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ISBN: 9780801489594

ISBN-10: 0801489598

ISBN-13: 9780801489594

Edition: 2013

Authors: Martha Finnemore

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Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its members' priorities. Martha Finnemore uses one type of force, military intervention, as a window onto the shifting character of international society. She examines the changes, over the past 400 years, in why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened. It is not the fact of intervention that has altered, she says, but rather the reasons for and meaning behind intervention -- the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Martha Finnemore is University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University.



Acknowledgments



The Purpose of Force



Sovereign Default and Military Intervention



Changing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention



Intervention and International Order



How Purpose Changes



Measuring Material Distribution of Power


Index