Description
Book SynopsisCarrie 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.
Trade Review"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 realm of power politics." *
Human Rights Quarterly *
"Carrie Booth Walling makes a sharp and compelling case for the role of argument in shaping decisions to intervene on humanitarian grounds. From this simple and elegant premise, and drawing adeptly on primary documents, she explains a full range of humanitarian interventions." * Sonia Cardenas, author of
Human Rights in Latin America *
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All Necessary Measures makes an important contribution to the constructivist literature and brings together numerous cases under a simple but telling framework that illuminates the decision processes of the Security Council on issues of humanitarian intervention." * William Burke-White, University of Pennsylvania School of Law *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Constructing Humanitarian Intervention
Chapter 2. The Emergence of Human Rights Discourse in the Security Council: Domestic Repression in Iraq, 1990-1992
Chapter 3. State Collapse in Somalia and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention
Chapter 4. From Nonintervention to Humanitarian Intervention: Contested Stories About Sovereignty and Victimhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Chapter 5. The Perpetrator State and Security Council Inaction: The Case of Rwanda
Chapter 6. International Law, Human Rights, and State Sovereignty: The Security Council Response to Killings in Kosovo
Chapter 7. Complex Conflicts and Obstacles to Rescue in Darfur, Sudan
Chapter 8. The Responsibility to Protect, Individual Criminal Accountability, and Humanitarian Intervention in Libya
Chapter 9. Causal Stories, Human Rights, and the Evolution of Sovereignty
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
