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First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
David N. Gibbs
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Description for First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
Paperback. Raises basic questions about the humanitarian interventions that have played a key role in US foreign policy. This book shows how these interventions often heightened violence and increased human suffering. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 1KBB; HBW; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
In ""First Do No Harm"", David Gibbs raises basic questions about the humanitarian interventions that have played a key role in U.S. foreign policy for the past twenty years. Using a wide range of sources, including government documents, transcripts of international war crimes trials, and memoirs, Gibbs shows how these interventions often heightened violence and increased human suffering. The book focuses on the 1991-1999 breakup of Yugoslavia, which helped forge the idea that the United States and its allies could stage humanitarian interventions that would end ethnic strife. It is widely believed that NATO bombing campaigns in Bosnia and Kosovo ... Read more
In ""First Do No Harm"", David Gibbs raises basic questions about the humanitarian interventions that have played a key role in U.S. foreign policy for the past twenty years. Using a wide range of sources, including government documents, transcripts of international war crimes trials, and memoirs, Gibbs shows how these interventions often heightened violence and increased human suffering. The book focuses on the 1991-1999 breakup of Yugoslavia, which helped forge the idea that the United States and its allies could stage humanitarian interventions that would end ethnic strife. It is widely believed that NATO bombing campaigns in Bosnia and Kosovo ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826516442
SKU
V9780826516442
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About David N. Gibbs
David N. Gibbs, Associate Professor of History and Political Science, University of Arizona, is the author of The Political Economy of Third World Intervention.
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