Agency and ethics : the politics of military intervention / Anthony F. Lang, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lang, Anthony F., 1968-

Series:

SUNY series in global politics

SUNY series in Global Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance.

Intervention (International law)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Intervention (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why does political conflict seem to consistently interfere with attempts to provide aid, end ethnic discord, or restore democracy? To answer this question, Agency and Ethics examines how the norms that originally motivate an intervention often create conflict between the intervening powers, outside powers, and the political agents who are the victims of the intervention. Three case studies are drawn upon to illustrate this phenomena: the British and American intervention in Bolshevik Russia in 1918; the British and French intervention in Egypt in 1956; and the American and United Nations intervention in Somalia in 1993. Although rarely categorized together, these three interventions shared at least one strong commonality: all failed to achieve their professed goals, with the troops being ignominiously recalled in each example. Lang concludes by addressing the dilemma of how to resolve complex humanitarian emergencies in the twenty-first century without the necessity of resorting to military intervention.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Intervention in Russia

Intervention in Egypt

Intervention in Somalia

The Dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Suny Series in Global Politics

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-236) and index.

ISBN:

9780791489772

0791489779

9780585444000

0585444005

OCLC:

61367488