Humanitarian Military Intervention The Conditions for Success and Failure

by Seybolt, Taylor B.

• ISBN13: 9780199252435
• ISBN10: 0199252432
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure is a thoughtful study of the conditions that determine if and how military intervention is a justified policy response to a humanitarian crisis in a foreign state. The book draws valuable lessons from case studies of operations in six countries that took place during the 1990s about how the prospects of success in a humanitarian military intervention can be evaluated-and how they can be improved. It also presents an original and comprehensive framework for defining and measuring success of past and future interventions, which centers on estimating the number of lives saved. Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure is aimed not only at researchers on peace and conflict but also at policymakers, practitioners and anyone else struggling with the imperative-and the many dilemmas-of saving human lives from armed violence.

Author Biography

Taylor B. Seybolt is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. In 2002-2008 he was a Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace. From 1999 to 2002 he was the Leader of the SIPRI Conflicts and Peace Enforcement Project.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations and acronyms	p. x
Northern Iraq, 1992	p. xii
Somalia	p. xiii
Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 1995	p. xiv
Rwanda, August 1994	p. xv
Kosovo, 1999	p. xvi
East Timor, 1999	p. xvii
Controversies about humanitarian military intervention	p. 1
Humanitarian intervention debates	p. 7
The structure of this book	p. 28
Judging success and failure	p. 30
What is success?	p. 30
Counting people who did not die	p. 32
A typology of humanitarian military intervention	p. 38
Summary	p. 45
Military responses to humanitarian dilemmas	p. 40
A typology of humanitarian military intervention	p. 42
Humanitarian military interventions in the 1990s	p. 46
State oppression of the Kurds in northern Iraq, 1991-96	p. 47
State failure and famine in Somaha, 1991-95	p. 52
Secession and ethnic expulsion in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-95	p. 61
Genocide and civil war in Rwanda, 1994	p. 70
Secessionist violence and ethnic expulsion in Kosovo, 1999	p. 78
Independence and fear in East Timor, 1999-2000	p. 86
Summary	p. 93
The impact of intervention in northern Iraq, 1991-96	p. 48
The impact of intervention in Somalia, 1991-95	p. 60
The impact of intenvention in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-95	p. 68
The impact of intervention in Rwanda, 1994	p. 78
The impact of intervention in Kosovo, 1999-2000	p. 80
The impact of intervention in East Timor, 1999-2000	p. 90
Helping to deliver emergency aid	p. 96
Strategies for delivering aid	p. 97
Direct aid and logistics provision in the 1990s	p. 106
Advantages and disadvantages of military intervention to help provide aid	p. 131
Summary	p. 133
Variations of direct aid and logistical assistance	p. 106
Protecting humanitarian aid operations	p. 135
Strategies for protecting aid operations	p. 136
Protecting aid operations in the 1990s	p. 145
Advantages and disadvantages of military intervention to protect aid operations	p. 172
Summary	p. 176
Various forms of military protection of aid operations	p. 140
Saving the victims of violence	p. 177
Strategies for protecting civilians	p. 180
Saving the victims of violence in the 1990s	p. 191
Advantages and disadvantages of military intervention to save the victims of violence	p. 218
Summary	p. 220
Various forms of saving civilian victims	p. 184
Defeating the perpetrators of violence	p. 222
Strategies for defeating the perpetrators of violence	p. 224
Defeating the perpetrators of violence in the 1990s	p. 230
Advantages and disadvantages of military intervention to defeat the perpetrators of violence	p. 262
Summary	p. 265
Various outcomes of offensive action to defeat perpetrators of violence	p. 226
The prospects for success and the limits of humanitarian intervention	p. 267
Taking stock	p. 270
Choosing among types and strategies	p. 274
The limits of humanitarian military intervention	p. 276
Concluding comments	p. 280
Success and failure in humanitarian military intervention in the 1990s	p. 272
Index	p. 282
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