The Politics of International Humanitarian Aid Operations

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The theories and case studies examined in this volume constitute a study of foreign intervention in civil conflicts for the purpose of rendering humanitarian aid. The classical paradigm of the ethics of intervention forbids the violation of territorial sovereignty. Public international law and the UN charter also mandate nonintervention within the territorial boundaries of a state. Nevertheless, in recent years, as a result of brutal civil conflicts and their violent and inhumane consequences - as in Rwanda, Bosnia and Cambodia - international aid interventions have become an accepted practice. Still, international humanitarian aid involves unsettled, controversial issues - dilemmas concerning donors, recipients and international organizations. These issues, as well as the concepts of sovereignty, human rights, coercive interventions and peacekeeping, are critically evaluated in this volume, which should be of interest to scholars and policymakers in international relations, human rights and military affairs.

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ERIC A. BELGRAD is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Political Science at Towson State University in Maryland. NITZA NACHMIAS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Haifa in Israel.