1st Edition

No Fly Zones and International Security Politics and Strategy

By Stephen Wrage, Scott Cooper Copyright 2019
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book discusses the practice of no-fly zones in international affairs. The first no-fly zone was imposed over northern Iraq immediately after the first Gulf War, and since then they have become a regular recourse for policymakers confronted with humanitarian crises. They have come to be viewed as a feasible, essentially non-violent form of intervention that can be performed entirely... Read more

1. About No-fly Zones  2. Iraq: Operations Northern Watch and Southern Watch  3. Bosnia: Operations Sky Monitor and Deny Flight  4. Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn  5. The Politics and Prospects for No-Fly Zones

Biography

Stephen Wrage has been a professor of American foreign policy at the US Naval Academy for many years and has written widely on national security affairs. Scott Cooper is a retired lieutenant colonel and has flown hundreds of no-fly zone enforcement missions and completed seven deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.