First Do No Harm Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia

Name: First Do No Harm Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
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ISBN: 9780826516442

ISBN-10: 0826516440

ISBN-13: 9780826516442

Edition: 2009

Authors: David N. Gibbs

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In First Do No Harm, David Gibbs raises basic questions about the humanitarian interventions that have played a key role in U.S. foreign policy for the past twenty years. Using a wide range of sources, including government documents, transcripts of international war crimes trials, and memoirs, Gibbs shows how these interventions often heightened violence and increased human suffering.The book focuses on the 199199 breakup of Yugoslavia, which helped forge the idea that the United States and its allies could stage humanitarian interventions that would end ethnic strife. It is widely believed that NATO bombing campaigns in Bosnia and Kosovo played a vital role in stopping Serb-directed…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 6/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 327
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface



The Rise of Humanitarian Intervention



US Predominance and the Logic of Interventionism



Origins of the Yugoslav Conflict



Germany Drops a Match



The War Spreads to Bosnia-Herzegovina



Only the Weak Rely on Diplomacy: The Clinton Administration Faces Bosnia



Kosovo and the Reaffirmation of American Power



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index