- Summary
- "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 and character of conflict as well as the source of sovereign authority in target states have the potential to enable or constrain the use of military force in defense of human rights." -- Publisher's description.
- Series
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Walling, Carrie Booth.
- Published
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013
- Contents
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Constructing humanitarian intervention
The emergence of human rights discourse in the Security Council: domestic repression in Iraq, 1990-1992
State collapse in Somalia and the emergence of Security Council humanitarian intervention
From nonintervention to humanitarian intervention: contested stories about sovereignty and victimhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The perpetrator state and Security Council inaction: the case of Rwanda
International law, human rights, and state sovereignty: the security council response to killings in Kosovo
Complex conflicts and obstacles to rescue in Darfur, Sudan
The responsibility to protect, individual criminal accountability, and humanitarian intervention in Libya
Causal stories, human rights, and the evolution of sovereignty.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-301) and index.
Constructing humanitarian intervention -- The emergence of human rights discourse in the Security Council: domestic repression in Iraq, 1990-1992 -- State collapse in Somalia and the emergence of Security Council humanitarian intervention -- From nonintervention to humanitarian intervention: contested stories about sovereignty and victimhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The perpetrator state and Security Council inaction: the case of Rwanda -- International law, human rights, and state sovereignty: the security council response to killings in Kosovo -- Complex conflicts and obstacles to rescue in Darfur, Sudan -- The responsibility to protect, individual criminal accountability, and humanitarian intervention in Libya -- Causal stories, human rights, and the evolution of sovereignty.
