Humanitarian intervention : ideas in action / Thomas G. Weiss ; [with a foreword by Gareth Evans].
"A singular development of the post Cold-War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. Drawing on two decades of research, Thomas G. Weiss pro...
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Cambridge ; Malden, Mass. :
Polity Press,
2007.
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| Series: | War and conflict in the modern world.
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Table of Contents:
- Conceptual building blocks
- "Humanitarian" interventions: thumbnail sketches
- New wars and new humanitarianisms
- New thinking: the responsibility to protect
- So what? Moving from rhetoric to reality.