Humanitarian intervention and international society

Global Governance

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 225-230

  Ayoob, Mohammed ^a  

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EID: 0035595045     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-00703002     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. The RMA capacity has been summed up succinctly in the following words: "What can be seen by high-tech sensors can be hit, what can be hit will be destroyed." Eliot A. Cohen, "A Revolution in Warfare," Foreign Affairs 75, no. 2 (March-April 1996): 45.
2. Gerritt W. Gong, The Standard of 'Civilization' in International Society (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
3. David P. Forsythe, Human Rights in International Relations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 3.
4. This point, often overlooked in Western analyses, is made very cogently in Ramesh Thakur, "Global Norms and International Humanitarian Law: An Asian Perspective," International Review of the Red Cross 83, no. 841 (March 2001): 19-43.
5. For the intimate connection between violence and state making, see the seminal article by Youssef Cohen, Brian R. Brown, and A. F. K. Organski, "The Paradoxical Nature of State Making: The Violent Creation of Order," American Political Science Review 75, no. 4 (1981): 901-910.
6. For the violence accompanying the state-making process in Europe, see Charles Tilly, "Reflections on the History of European State-Making," in Charles Tilly, ed., Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 3-83.
7. For discussion of conflict entrepreneurs in the context of failed states, see David Keen, The Economic Functions of Violence in Civil Wars, Adelphi Paper No. 320 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1998); and William Reno, Humanitarian Emergencies and Warlord Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Working Paper No. 140 (Helsinki: UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research, 1997).
8. For discussion of conflict entrepreneurs in the context of failed states, see David Keen, The Economic Functions of Violence in Civil Wars, Adelphi Paper No. 320 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1998); and William Reno, Humanitarian Emergencies and Warlord Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Working Paper No. 140 (Helsinki: UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research, 1997).
9. For the most cogent analysis of the concept of "society of states" or "international society," see Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). For an elegant and updated contemporary rendering of the argument, see Robert Jackson, The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
10. For the most cogent analysis of the concept of "society of states" or "international society," see Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). For an elegant and updated contemporary rendering of the argument, see Robert Jackson, The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
11. Thomas G. Weiss, "The Politics of Humanitarian Ideas," Security Dialogue 31, no. 1 (March 2000): 20.