Wheeler, Nicholas J.

Saving strangers humanitarian intervention in international society / Nicholas J. Wheeler. - Oxford ; New York ; Auckland : Oxford University Press, 2000. - xv, 336 p. ; 24 cm

Bibliogr. p. [311]-319. Index.

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


Examines the extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in international society. This work maps the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods.

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Humanitarian intervention.

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