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All necessary measures : the United Nations and humanitarian intervention

Title: All necessary measures : the United Nations and humanitarian intervention / Carrie Booth Walling.
Author: Walling, Carrie Booth.
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.

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Description

308 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"What prompts the United Nations Security Council to engage forcefully in some crises at high risk for genocide and ethnic cleansing but not others? In All Necessary Measures, Carrie Booth Walling identifies several systematic patterns in the stories that council members tell about conflicts and the policy solutions that result from them. Drawing on qualitative comparative case studies spanning two decades, including situations where the council has intervened to stop mass killing (Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Sierra Leone) as well as situations where it has not (Rwanda, Kosovo, and Sudan), Walling posits that the arguments council members make about the cause and character of conflict as well as the source of sovereign authority in target states have the potential to enable or constrain the use of military force in defense of human rights." -- Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Uniform Title

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Subject

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-301) and index.

Contents

Constructing humanitarian intervention -- The emergence of human rights discourse in the Security Council: domestic repression in Iraq, 1990-1992 -- State collapse in Somalia and the emergence of Security Council humanitarian intervention -- From nonintervention to humanitarian intervention: contested stories about sovereignty and victimhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The perpetrator state and Security Council inaction: the case of Rwanda -- International law, human rights, and state sovereignty: the security council response to killings in Kosovo -- Complex conflicts and obstacles to rescue in Darfur, Sudan -- The responsibility to protect, individual criminal accountability, and humanitarian intervention in Libya -- Causal stories, human rights, and the evolution of sovereignty.

Call Number

JFE 15-7525

ISBN

9780812245349 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812245342 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013011241

OCLC

841039511

Author

Walling, Carrie Booth.

Title

All necessary measures : the United Nations and humanitarian intervention / Carrie Booth Walling.

Imprint

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-301) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7525

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