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Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention
Barbara Walter (Ed.)
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Description for Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention
Paperback. An examination of four recent military interventions by the international community: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and counterproductive interventions suggests a need to develop a framework for future policy choices. Editor(s): Walter, Barbara F.; Snyder, Jack. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 maps; six text tables. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1FMC; 1HFGR; 1HFGS; 3JJP; JPS; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts-four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today's policy debates. The contributors view ethnic conflict ... Read more
Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts-four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today's policy debates. The contributors view ethnic conflict ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231116275
SKU
V9780231116275
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About Barbara Walter (Ed.)
Barbara F. Walter is assistant professor of political science at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Jack Snyder is Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations and chair of the Political Science Department at Columbia University.
Reviews for Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention
This volume is a must for anyone interested in the management of ethnic conflicts as it does a good job of highlighting the difficulties and dilemmas that have to be overcome if interventions are [sic] be more successful in the future than they have been in the past.
Peter Viggo Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark International Affairs
Peter Viggo Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark International Affairs