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Military-Civilian Interactions

Intervening in Humanitarian Crises

 

 

Thomas G. Weiss

 

 

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.

Lanham • Boulder • New York • Oxford

 

 

Contents

 

List of Illustrations ix

Foreword, Brian Urquhart xi

Preface xiii

List of Abbreviations xvii

Introduction 1

1 Armed Forces and Humanitarian Action: Past and Present 7

2 Framework for Estimating Military Costs and Civilian

Benefits from Intervention 31

3 Northern Iraq, 1991-1996: A Difficult Act to Follow? 43

4 Somalia, 1992-1995: The Death of Pollyannaish

Humanitarianism? 69

5 Bosnia, 1992-1995: Convoluted Charity? 97

6 Rwanda, 1994-1995: Better Late than Never? 137

7 Haiti, 1991-1996: Why Wait So Long? 167

8 Humanitarian Intervention: Costs, Benefits, Quandaries 193

Notes 221

Selected Bibliography of the 1990s 257

Index 269

About the Author 281

 

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