Justifying America's wars
Subtitle: the conduct and practice of US military intervention
By: Nicholas Kerton-Johnson
Series: Contemporary security studies; Contemporary security studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780415561686; 9780203861677
Subjects: Just war doctrine; Kosovo War, 1998-1999; Military policy; Case studies; Intervention (International law); Afghan War, 2001-; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Iraq War, 2003-
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legitimacy in international relations; title: Some methodological points; title: An initial note on the cases; title: Setting the context : intervention and norms in international society; title: 1945-1990; title: 1990-2001; title: 2001 onwards; title: Intervention norms and international society; title: The Gulf War; title: Background to the war; title: President Bush's justifications for intervention; title: UNSC; title: The move to war; title: The practice of intervention; title: Post-war rebellion and safe-havens; title: Conclusion: Old or new norms advanced?; title: The Kosovo intervention; title: Background and UNSC; title: President Clinton's justifications for intervention; title: The practice of intervention; title: A humanitarian shift in international society?; title: The intervention in Afghanistan; title: Background to the intervention; title: President Bush's justifications for the intervention; title: UNSC; title: The practice of intervention; title: The Iraq War; title: President Bush's justifications for the intervention; title: UNSC; title: The practice of intervention; title: Revisiting the cases; title: Justifications across the cases : a core legitimating norm?; title: Practice across cases : standard practice? A shifting international society?