Humanitarian Military Intervention The Conditions for Success and Failure

by Seybolt, Taylor B.

• ISBN13: 9780199551057
• ISBN10: 0199551057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Humanitarian Military Intervention focuses on the questions of when and how military intervention in conflicts can achieve humanitarian benefits. It argues that an intervention can be justified only when decision makers are reasonably sure that it will do more good than harm. As the measure of success, the book develops a methodology to determine the number of lives saved. The analysis of 17 military operations in the defining cases of the 1990s-Iraq after the Gulf War, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo and East Timor-reveals both successful and unsuccessful interventions in the same locations.

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 to the paperback edition	p. vii
Preface to the hardback edition	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Abbreviations and acronyms	p. xi
Northern Iraq, 1992	p. xiii
Somalia	p. xiv
Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 1995	p. xv
Rwanda, August 1994	p. xvi
Kosovo, 1999	p. xvii
East Timor, 1999	p. xviii
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 Somalia, 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 intervention 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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