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The author describes the reasons why humanitarian military interventions succeed or fail, basing his analysis on the interventions carried out in the 1990s in I

The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging hi

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. Over the past 20 years the United Nations has

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