The United Nations and the Politics of Selective Humanitarian Intervention

by Martin Binder

Book Overview

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 imposed economic sanctions, deployed peacekeeping operations, and even conducted or authorized military intervention in Somalia, Bosnia, or Libya. Yet no such measures were taken in other similar cases such as Colombia, Myanmar, Darfur-or more recently-Syria. What factors account for the UN's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319825577
• ISBN13: 9783319825571
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"