Values and Weapons

From Humanitarian Intervention to Regime Change
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8716-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Values and Weapons looks at the determinants of legitimacy for using military force in the US and Europe. Sovereignty has been redefined to be conditional on democratic government, and this makes it much easier to intervene into non-democratic states.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matlary, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Rules of the Game Conditional Sovereignty: Changes in and Fragmentation of State Sovereignty The Non-Intervention Norm and Intervention Practice in the 1990s The Changing Intervention Norm: The Realpolitik of Human Rights Legitimacy in Europe: Multilateral and UN-Based Legitimacy in the USA: National Interests and Values Differing Legitimacy: United over Kosovo and Afghanistan, Divided over Iraq 'Failed' States and Terrorism: The Good Meets the Expedient? 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Assessment of Normative Change Intervention for 'Regime Change': Assessment of Normative Change Conclusions Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JANNE HAALAND MATLARY is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. She was Deputy Foreign Minister for Norway from 1997-2000. She has previously published two books with Palgrave Macmillan, (1997) and (2002).