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The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this . While there are studies of each individual case of intervention-in East Pakistan.

The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods.

Argues that there has been a change of norm in relation to the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention in the 1990s

Argues that there has been a change of norm in relation to the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention in the 1990s. It shows how humanitarian justifications for the use of force lacked legitimacy in Cold War international society, focusing on the cases of India, Vietnam, and Tanzania's interventions in the 1970s.

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The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book.

1. Vincent, R. Human Rights and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 ), Ch.

Wheeler, Nicholas . Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 ), Ch. 1. 5, 6. Recommended Readings: Hurrell, Andrew, Power, Institutions, and the Production of Inequality, in Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall (ed., Power in Global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 ).

Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society. This book assesses the changing international environment for humanitarian intervention to make two useful contributions

Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society. This book assesses the changing international environment for humanitarian intervention to make two useful contributions. First, Wheeler uses case studies to underscore the evolving basis for intervention's legitimacy. India's invasion of East Pakistan in 1971, Vietnam's overthrow of Cambodia's Pol Pot regime in 1979, and Tanzania's use of force against Uganda in 1979 were all partially justified on humanitarian grounds but greeted by international skepticism.

The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international . While there are studies of each case of intervention-in East Pakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo-there is no single work that examines them comprehensively in a comparative framework.