National Interest and International Solidarity

by Coicaud, Jean-Marc; Wheeler, Nicholas J.

• ISBN13: 9789280811476
• ISBN10: 9280811479
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

Following the end of the cold war, the 1990s witnessed an intense period of geopolitical upheaval. Humanitarian intervention became an important tool for powerful nations and international coalitions trying to alter the course of unstable countries plunged into chaos. The motivations for these interventions and their implementation have generated heated policy debates ever since.This book has its origins in the intellectual and political climate of that time. The contributors analyze the arguments and counterarguments used in the debates over humanitarian intervention, then extrapolate their findings to a broader international context. In short, the book assesses the extent to which national interest and internationalist considerations enter into the rationale for actors to get involved in international crises.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: The changing ethics of power beyond borders	p. 1
Solidarity versus security	p. 25
India and Pakistan: From zero-sum to shared security	p. 27
Sino-US relations: A nascent security regime?	p. 56
Assessing the logic of solidarity and national interest in great power interventionism	p. 85
Cultures of solidarity and national interest: Russia's conflict management policies	p. 87
International intervention in Central Asia: The triumph of geopolitics?	p. 120
Constructions of solidarity: The US and the EU in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict	p. 151
Beyond geopolitics and solidarism: Interpenetrated sovereignty, transnational conflict and the United States' "Plan Colombia"	p. 176
Toward an ethics of human solidarity	p. 205
An intersection of interests and values: US foreign policy toward Africa	p. 207
Geopolitics and solidarity on the borders of Europe: The Yugoslav wars of succession	p. 230
Is East Timor an exception in the Southeast Asian landscape?	p. 261
Conclusion: Making sense of national interest and international solidarity	p. 288
Index	p. 302
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