Intervention in Contemporary World Politics

Neil MacFarlane (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-851678-1 (ISBN)

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Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. Focussing on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the differences between them, this work contests the notion that there is an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention in international politics.

Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the differences between them. It contests the notion that there is an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention in international politics, arguing that political interests remain essential to the practice of intervention.

S Neil Macfarlane is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.

GLOSSARY; INTRODUCTION; 1. The Terms of the Debate; 2. Intervention in Pre-Cold War International History; Intervention in the Peloponnesian War; Intervention in pre-Westphalian Europe; The French Revolution and the Concert of Europe; Intervention in the interwar period; 3. Intervention during the Cold War; The normative dimension; The Cold War practice of intervention; 4. The Interlude of 'New Political Thinking'; 5. Post-Cold War Intervention; Post-Cold War normative developments; The post-Cold War practice of intervention; CONCLUSION; AFTERWORD; NOTES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.2.2005
Reihe/Serie	Adelphi series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	180 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-19-851678-9 / 0198516789
ISBN-13	978-0-19-851678-1 / 9780198516781
Zustand	Neuware