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This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to exercise its responsibility to protect communities under threat. Here, Krieg explains the civil-military dynamics behind the state's failure to effectively intervene in humanitarian crises overseas using its serviceman. The central question that follows is: would the private military contractor be a better alternative agent of the state in humanitarian intervention? This book demonstrates that given his professional identity and role towards client state and public, the contractor can be employed effectively in humanitarian intervention to generate more ethical outcomes. This volume is essential reading for researchers and post-graduate students of R2P, International Security Studies and privatization, as well as Peace and Conflict studies and International Relations more broadly.--

A review essay on books by (1) Mlada Bukovansky, Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2002); (2) Neta Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2002); (3) Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Press, 2003); & (4) Ted Hopf, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies; Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002). The four books under review here offer insightful & penetrating analyses of the role of such factors as legitimacy, ideas, norms, culture, & identities in world politics. Martha Finnemore's The Purpose of Intervention demonstrates that great powers intervene in small states for reasons significantly different from those in the past. Neta Crawford's Argument and Change in World Politics chronicles arguments for & against Western imperialism over the past five centuries & contends that those arguments helped bring about the birth, long life, & death of Western formal empires. Mlada Bukovansky's Legitimacy and Power Politics examines the social, economic, & political forces at work in the American & French revolutions; she asserts that those events wrought changes in prevailing notions of what makes a state legitimate. Ted Hopf's Social Construction of International Politics analyzes discourses in Moscow in 1955 & 1999 & maintains that these discourses are an important cause of Soviet or Russian foreign policy attitudes in the two periods. 39 References.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Raising issues of international instability, international law and military intervention -- The road to here -- The question of law and where it has gone wrong -- Reality dawns -- Where was the damage done? -- The position of legality and legitimacy -- The search for legitimacy -- Who cares about legitimacy? -- Boundaries of legitimacy -- Humanitarian intervention -- Consensus -- Notes -- Chapter 2 What is legitimacy and what is consensus? -- Capturing legitimacy -- Defining consensus -- Notes -- Chapter 3 A chequered past: the long history of intervention -- Historical perspective -- The emergence and influence of positivism -- Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The last hundred years: the impact of the Great War, the Second World War and the Cold War -- The League of Nations -- The Kellogg-Briand Pact -- The UN Charter -- Reframing the question of legality -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Gulf War: a new dawn? -- Background -- Analysis and lessons learned -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Kosovo: legitimacy to the fore -- Background and history -- Analysis and lessons learned -- After the fact - UK Foreign Affairs Committee -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Sierra Leone: idealism masks realism -- Background and history -- Analysis and lessons learned -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Afghanistan: clarity in crisis -- Background -- Analysis and lessons learned -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Iraq: reality bites -- Background -- Analysis and lessons learned -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Libya: designed for the return of legitimacy -- Background -- Analysis and lessons learned -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Syria: realism reasserted -- Background -- The British aren't coming! -- Analysis and lessons learned -- Notes -- Conclusion.

Pt. 2: Crisis management, engagement and humanitarian intervention. - 84 S. - Tab. - (Arbeitspapier / Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik 33)

How states join coalitions affects the extent to which they are perceived as blameworthy – or praiseworthy – for the outcome of that coalition. By extension, states' moral reputations can be a contributing factor that dissuades those states from volunteering to join humanitarian interventions, despite the ethical imperative to do so. To highlight this argument, this article considers the Australian and the United Kingdom (UK) governments' initial reluctance to join yet another United States-led intervention in Iraq to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The human security agenda is described as the latest attempt to challenge state-centered conceptions of security. It has served to open debates on humanitarian intervention as well as the responsibility of sovereign states to protect their populations. Within the range of broad to narrow conceptions of human security, there is agreement that security from imminent threat of violence is a valid goal, but other goals of broader conceptions, especially at the declaratory level, create unease among states, including the US, that perceive human security as encroaching on their sovereignty & freedom of action. This article seeks to ascertain the extent to which human security has been integrated in institutional discourses & practices by examining the human security concerns reflected discursively by the UN mission in Haiti (UNMIH), 1993-1995, & the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), 2003-2005. They conclusions are mixed, but they are not meant to be an indictment of the human security framework. Rather, they are intended to introduce some caution in its implementation. The case of Haiti, where little long-term change has been effected by these missions, calls for a reevaluation of what can realistically be achieved in a given situation. Tables. J. Stanton

Examines historical dimension of humanitarian intervention, focusing on the 1875-78 Eastern Crisis in the Balkans and the Bosnian conflict of 1992-95. Summaries in English and French p. 317-9.

Internationale Gemeinschaft UNO/NATO/EU in Kosova/Kosovo, internationale Polizei, EU-Mission, humanitäre Intervention. - International community UNO/NATO/EU in Kosova/Kosovo, international police, humanitarian intervention