1st Edition

Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention

Edited By Alan Kuperman, Timothy Crawford Copyright 2006
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

113 Pages
by Routledge

Does humanitarian military intervention save lives as intended? Or does it perversely embolden rebels and ignite the spiral of violence that it seeks to prevent? Such questions lie at the heart of a new and lively controversy in international politics. "Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention" explores whether the emerging norm of intervention backfires in conflicts such as Kosovo,... Read more
Introduction, Timothy W. Crawford, Alan J. Kuperman; Chapter 1 Suicidal Rebellions and the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention, Alan J. Kuperman; Chapter 2 Moral Hazard, Intervention and Internal War, Timothy W. Crawford; Chapter 3 Third-party Intervention and Escalation in Kosovo, Arman Grigorian; Chapter 4 Conflict Management and the Misapplication of Moral Hazard Theory, Robert W. Rauchhaus; Chapter 5 Illusions of Moral Hazard, Jon Western; Chapter 6 The Hazards of Thinking about Moral Hazard, R. Harrison Wagner;

Biography

Timothy W. Crawford is assistant professor of political science at Boston College. He has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton’s Center of International Studies, and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. He is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a faculty associate of the Olin Institute of Strategic Studies, and a member of the board of directors of America Abroad Media.,
Alan J. Kuperman is assistant professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He was formerly resident assistant professor of international relations, and director of the international relations program, at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy. He has received fellowships from Harvard University, MIT, the University of Southern California, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics.