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Moral Responsibility, Statecraft and Humanitarian Intervention The US Response to Rwanda, Darfur, and Libya

By Cathinka Vik Copyright 2015
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the moral complexity of statecraft in the context of decision-making on armed intervention in the post-Cold War era. This book adds to the debate on humanitarian intervention by analyzing the moral complexity of statecraft when confronted with situations of severe human rights violations. Through a comparative case study of President Bill Clinton administration’s failure to... Read more

Introduction 1. The Moral Dimension of Statecraft 2. The US Response to Rwanda 3. The US Response to Darfur 4. The US Response to Libya 5. Responsibility to Whom?  

Biography

Cathinka Vik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Technology and Society at Gjovik University College, Norway, and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Miami.