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Title

The purpose of intervention : changing beliefs about the use of force / Martha Finnemore.

Author

Finnemore, Martha.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Description

viii, 173 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Martha Finnemore uses one type of force, military intervention, as a window onto the shifting character of international society. She examines the changes, over the past four hundred years, in why countries intervene militarily as well as in how they have intervened." "Finnemore looks at three types of intervention: collecting debts, addressing humanitarian crises, and acting against states perceived as threats to international peace. In all three, she finds that intervention that is now considered obvious was vigorously contested or even rejected by people in earlier periods for well-articulated and logical reasons. As broad historical perspective allows her to explicate long-term trends: the steady erosion of force's normative value in international politics, the growing influence of equality norms in many aspects of global political life, and the increasing importance of law in intervention practices."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cornell studies in security affairs

Uniform Title

Cornell studies in security affairs.

Subject

• Humanitarian Intervention
• Intervention (International law)
• Military policy > Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The purpose of force -- Sovereign default and military intervention -- Changing norms of humanitarian intervention -- Intervention and international order -- How purpose changes -- Measuring material distribution of power.

ISBN

0801438454 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002155923

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Harvard Library