Saving strangers : humanitarian intervention in international society / Nicholas J. Wheeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheeler, Nicholas J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention.

Intervention (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

The changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention is examined here, by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods.

Contents:

Part one : theories of humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention and international society Part two : humanitarian intervention during the Cold War. India as rescuer? Order versus justice in the Bangladesh war of 1971Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia : the triumph of realism over common humanity? Good or bad precedent? Tanzania's intervention in Uganda Part three : humanitarian intervention after the Cold War. A solidarist moment 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 bystander to genocide : international society and the Rwandan genocide of 1994The limits of humanitarian intervention from the air : the cases of Bosnia and Kosovo

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and index.

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ISBN:

9786611943851

9780191522598

0191522597

9781281943859

1281943851

9780585356754

0585356750

9780191600302

019160030X

OCLC:

427685601