The Evolution of the Doctrine and Practice of Humanitarian InterventionFrancis Kofi Abiew Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1999 M03 25 - 325 pages The topic of humanitarian intervention has become increasingly significant since the end of the Cold War. Despite a substantial body of literature on the subject in the past, recent developments justify a contemporary study of the subject. This book is not only timely, given the crises which have occasioned United Nations interventions over the past several years, but enduring, as international political structures undergo stress and reform, and as international law and international relations theorists grapple with the sovereignty/intervention problem. It defends the emergence of a right of humanitarian intervention and argues that state sovereignty is not incompatible with humanitarian intervention. After a thorough review of historical precedents, the book concludes by assessing contemporary developments in terms of sources of support for intervention on humanitarian grounds. |
Contents
THE TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE OF HUMANITARIAN | 18 |
a State Sovereignty | 28 |
State Practice in the Nineteenth and Early | 44 |
THE RIGHT OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN | 61 |
34 | 91 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS | 113 |
Conclusion | 132 |
Northern Iraq | 145 |
The Former Yugoslavia | 175 |
Rwanda | 189 |
Liberia | 200 |
Haiti | 212 |
Conclusion | 221 |
Assessment of PostCold War Practice | 228 |
The Role of Epistemic Communities in Forging | 258 |
CONCLUSION | 277 |
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