Humanitarian military intervention
Subtitle: the conditions for success and failure
By: Taylor B. Seybolt.
Contributors: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Series: SIPRI monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780199252435
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian intervention -- Case studies; Humanitarian intervention; Armed intervention; UN system; Civilian population; Humanitarian assistance
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Military intervention in a conflict without a reasonable prospect of success is unjustifiable, especially when it is done in the name of humanity. Couched in the debate on the responsibility to protect civilians from violence and drawing on traditional 'just war' principles, the central premise of this book is that humanitarian military intervention can be justified as a policy option only if decision makers can be reasonably sure that intervention will do more good than harm"--Jacket.

The author describes the reasons why humanitarian military interventions succeed or fail, basing his analysis on the interventions carried out in the 1990s in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo, and East Timor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Controversies about humanitarian intervention; title: Judging success and failure; title: Humanitarian military interventions in the 1990s; title: Helping to deliver emergency aid; title: Protecting humanitarian aide operations; title: Saving the victims of violence; title: Defeating the perpetrators of violence; title: The prospects for success and the limits of humanitarian intervention