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All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention

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Description for All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention Paperback. Carrie Booth Walling posits that the arguments Security Council members make about the cause and character of conflict and the source of sovereign authority in target states matter: they enable or constrain the use of military force in defense of human rights. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JPSN1; JPVH; LBBR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

What prompts the United Nations Security Council to engage forcefully in some crises at high risk for genocide and ethnic cleansing but not others? In All Necessary Measures, Carrie Booth Walling identifies several systematic patterns in the stories that council members tell about conflicts and the policy solutions that result from them. Drawing on qualitative comparative case studies spanning two decades, including situations where the council has intervened to stop mass killing (Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Sierra Leone) as well as situations where it has not (Rwanda, Kosovo, and Sudan), Walling posits that the arguments council members make about the cause ... Read more

At a moment when constructivist scholars in international relations are pushing beyond empirical claims for the value of norms and toward critical analysis of such norms, All Necessary Measures establishes discourse's real-world explanatory power. From her comparative chronology, Walling demonstrates that humanitarian intervention becomes possible when the majority of Security Council members come to a shared understanding of the conflict, perpetrators, and victims—and probable when the Council understands state sovereignty as complementary to human rights norms. By illuminating the relationship between national interests and the core values of Security Council members and how it influences decision-making, All Necessary Measures suggests when and where the Security Council is likely to intervene in the future.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223859
SKU
V9780812223859
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About Carrie Walling
Carrie Booth Walling is Associate Professor of Political Science at Albion College.

Reviews for All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention
"Overall, All Necessary Measures is an evocative project, in no small part because it challenges the primacy of place that scholars and policymakers give to material and strategic concerns. . . . This is an important piece of scholarship for all readers interested in conflict and human rights, as it clearly and cogently demonstrates that narratives matter, even in the ... Read more

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