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

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 this book, the author identifies several systematic patterns in the stories that council members tell about conflicts and the policy solutions that r...

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Main Author: Walling, Carrie Booth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Table of 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.