Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society

by Nicholas J. Wheeler

Book Overview

The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. While there are studies of each individual case of intervention--in East Pakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199253102
• ISBN13: 9780199253104
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"