Humanitarian Intervention, Ideas in Action by Weiss, Thomas G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright About the Author Foreword to the Third Edition by Gareth Evans Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction

Notes

1 Conceptual Building Blocks

Humanitarian intervention: a contested concept The evolution of peace operations The politics of normative change State sovereignty and nonintervention: two sides of the Westphalian coin Human rights and individual sovereignty Change and continuity in the international system Notes

2 “Humanitarian” Interventions: Thumbnail Sketches

The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The Charter regime and the Cold War The UN in the post-Cold War era Humanitarian interventions beginning in the turbulent 1990s Trends from the early post-Cold War years Second guessing The DRC, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Darfur: nothing new? Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Syria So, why Libya, and why not Syria? And so, why Côte d’Ivoire? African-centric focus of the ICC Toward new wars and new humanitarianisms Notes

3 New Wars and New Humanitarianisms

New wars New humanitarianisms Measuring the costs and benefits of military humanitarianism Moral hazard The role of new thinking Notes

4 New Thinking: The Responsibility to Protect

Sovereignty as responsibility Kofi Annan’s two sovereignties International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty The 2005 World Summit and since Notes

5 So What? Moving from Rhetoric to Reality

R2P, a Trojan horse for the Non-Aligned Movement? 9/11 and the war on terror The preoccupied and overstretched remaining superpower War economies, spoilers, and privatization A humanitarian identity crisis Conclusion Notes

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