ABSTRACT
International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. First, it pits the principle of state sovereignty against claims of universal human rights. Second, the motivations of intervening states may be open to question when avowals of moral action are arguably the fig leaf covering an assertion of power for political advantage. These questions have been salient in the context of the Balkan and African wars and U.S. policy in the Middle East. This volume undertakes a serious, systematic, and broadly international review of the issues.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|59 pages
International Legal Foundations
part II|61 pages
The International Politics of Intervention
chapter 5|21 pages
Problematizing Sovereignty
chapter 6|19 pages
Weak States, State Making, and Humanitarian Intervention
part III|56 pages
The Philosophy of Intervention
part IV|74 pages
Regional Dialogues
chapter 13|13 pages
The Reluctant Intervenor
part V|45 pages
Topics in Intervention