Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention |
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| Editor:
| Walter, Barbara
Snyder, Jack |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-11627-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw...
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Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today's policy debates.