Diplomatic interventions : conflict and change in a globalizing world /
FIERKE K M
Diplomatic interventions : conflict and change in a globalizing world / K M Fierke. - Basingstoke UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 - xiv, 221 p.
Argues that war is a social construct and that efforts to prevent, contain, stop, and recover from conflicts are not purely "dictatorial interference" but part of a spectrum of efforts to achieve change, among which military intervention is just one possiblity. Shifts "the emphasis from what one state does to another to the larger context of international rules and practices..." and shifts attention from intervention as a specific type of forcible act to benig part of "human efforts to mold and/or limit the experience of war" (from introduction).
9781403915412 (pbk.) : 36.75 USD
PEACE OPERATIONS
INTERVENTION--INTERNATIONAL LAW
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
DIPLOMACY
Diplomatic interventions : conflict and change in a globalizing world / K M Fierke. - Basingstoke UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 - xiv, 221 p.
Argues that war is a social construct and that efforts to prevent, contain, stop, and recover from conflicts are not purely "dictatorial interference" but part of a spectrum of efforts to achieve change, among which military intervention is just one possiblity. Shifts "the emphasis from what one state does to another to the larger context of international rules and practices..." and shifts attention from intervention as a specific type of forcible act to benig part of "human efforts to mold and/or limit the experience of war" (from introduction).
9781403915412 (pbk.) : 36.75 USD
PEACE OPERATIONS
INTERVENTION--INTERNATIONAL LAW
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
DIPLOMACY