Humanitarian military intervention : the conditions for success and failure / Taylor B. Seybolt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seybolt, Taylor B.

Contributor:

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Series:

SIPRI research monograph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention.

Humanitarian intervention--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 294 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure is a thoughtful study of the conditions that determine if and how military intervention is a justified policy response to a humanitarian crisis in a foreign state. The book draws valuable lessons from case studies of operations in six countries that took place during the 1990s about how the prospects of success in a humanitarian military intervention can be evaluated-and how they can be improved. It also presents an original and comprehensive framework for defining and measuring success of past and future interventions, which centers on estimating the number of lives saved. Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure is aimed not only at researchers on peace and conflict but also at policymakers, practitioners and anyone else struggling with the imperative-and the many dilemmas-of saving human lives from armed violence.

Contents:

Controversies about humanitarian intervention

Judging success and failure

Humanitarian military interventions in the 1990s

Helping to deliver emergency aid

Protecting humanitarian aide operations

Saving the victims of violence

Defeating the perpetrators of violence

The prospects for success and the limits of humanitarian intervention

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199252435

0199252432

OCLC:

85482131