Saving Strangers Humanitarian Intervention in International Society

Name: Saving Strangers Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
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ISBN: 9780199253104

ISBN-10: 0199253102

ISBN-13: 9780199253104

Edition: 2002

Authors: Nicholas J. Wheeler

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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. Crucially, the book examines how far international society has recognised humanitarian intervention as a legitimate exception to the rules of sovereignty and non-intervention and non-use of force. While there are studies of each case of intervention-in East Pakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo-there is no single work that examines them…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



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