Dimensions of Western Military Intervention

by Colin McInnes (Editor), Nicholas J. Wheeler (Editor)

Overview

Military intervention to protect civilians in danger has emerged as a key challenge for the West. This book explores the West's reaction to these challenges and some of the limits on its actions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714682488
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/2002
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Colin McInnes, Nicholas J. Wheeler

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Introduction: The Political and Moral Limits of Western Military Intervention to Protect Civilians in Danger	1
	Fatal Attraction? Air Power and the West	28
	The RMA and Intervention: A Sceptical View	52
	Implications of the Weinberger Doctrine for American Military Intervention in a Post-Desert Storm Age	66
	Missing the Story: The Media and the Rwandan Genocide	91
	The Doctrine Gap: The Enduring Problem of Contemporary Peace Support Operations Thinking	107
	Fighting For Freetown: British Military Intervention in Sierra Leone	140
	The Role of Monitoring and Verification	169
	Bosnia and Kosovo: Interpreting the Gender Dimensions of International Intervention	183
	Abstracts	196
	Notes on Contributors	200
	Index	201

Editorial Reviews

Nine essays emerged from a series of meetings of the Security Research Group in the Department of International Studies at the University of Wales-Aberystwyth, held in 1999 and the first half of 2000. Some criticize western states and the United Nations for action or inaction in Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda; others argue that the demand for interventions to be casualty-free limits where and how The West intervenes. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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