Values and Weapons From Humanitarian Intervention to Regime Change?

by Matlary, Janne Haaland

• ISBN13: 9781403987167
• ISBN10: 1403987165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Values and Weapons looks at the determinants of legitimacy for using military force in the US and Europe. The non-intervention norm is weakened by the advent of terror groups in failed states as well as by so-called humanitarian intervention. The development of a norm that calls for a 'duty to protect' has paved the way for intervention also into so-called 'failed' states. Sovereignty has been redefined to be conditional on democratic government, and this makes it much easier to intervene into non-democratic states.

Author Biography

JANNE HAALAND MATLARY is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. She was Deputy Foreign Minister for Norway from 1997-2000.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction: The Rules of the Game	1	(173)
1 Conditional Sovereignty: Changes in and Fragmentation of State Sovereignty	18	(15)
2 The Non-intervention Norm and Intervention Practice in the 1990's	33	(23)
3 How Does the Intervention Norm Change? The Realpolitik of Human Rights and Security Needs	56	(18)
4 Legitimacy in Europe: Multilateral and UN-Based	74	(15)
5 Legitimacy in the USA: National Security Interests	89	(22)
6 Differing Legitimacy: United over Kosovo and Afghanistan, Divided over Iraq	111	(16)
7 'Failed' States and Terrorism: The Good Meets the Expedient?	127	(20)
8 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Assessment of Normative Change	147	(16)
9 Intervention for 'Regime Change': Assessment of Normative Change	163	(11)
10 Conclusions	174	(11)
Bibliography	185	(7)
Index	192