Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure

by Taylor B. Seybolt

Book Overview

This study focuses on the questions of when and how military intervention in conflicts can achieve humanitarian benefits. It uses the standard that an intervention should do more good than harm to evaluate the successes and failures. The author develops a methodology to determine the number of lives saved, as a minimalist measure. The analysis of 19 military operations in the 6 case studies of Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo and East Timor reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199551057
• ISBN13: 9780199551057
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"