The New Killing Fields Massacre and the Politics of Intervention

by Brunner, Kira; Mills, Nicolaus

• ISBN13: 9780465008049
• ISBN10: 0465008046
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-07
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars, including, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass, Philip Gourevitch, William Shawcross, George Packer, Bill Berkeley and Samantha Power revisit four of the worst instances of state-sponsored killing--Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor--in the last half of the twentieth century in order to reconsider the success and failure of U.S. and U.N. military and humanitarian intervention.Featuring original essays and reporting,The New Killing Fieldsposes vital questions about the future of peacekeeping in the next century. In addition, theoretical essays by Michael Walzer and Michael Ignatieff frame the issue of intervention in terms of today's post-cold war reality and the future of human rights.

Author Biography

Kira Brunner is an editor of Radical Society magazine and lives in New York City. Nicolaus Mills is Professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City. Kira Brunner is an editor of Radical Society magazine and lives in New York City. Nicolaus Mills is Professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Accountability
The Language of Slaughter	p. 3
Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention	p. 19
Lessons of Cambodia	p. 37
Yugoslavia
Bearing Witness	p. 53
Murder in the Neighborhood	p. 55
Paying for the Powell Doctrine	p. 71
A Drive to Globare	p. 89
Rwanda
Bearing Witness	p. 101
Road to a Genocide	p. 103
Echoes of Violence	p. 117
Justice on a Hill	p. 129
East Timor
Bearing Witness	p. 157
"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die"	p. 159
The Shark Cage	p. 185
Back Road Reckoning	p. 207
No Longer Bystanders
Intervention and State Failure	p. 229
Raising the Cost of Genocide	p. 245
Acknowledgements	p. 265
Index	p. 266
About the Contributors	p. 274
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