Military-Civilian Interactions Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect

Is it possible and worthwhile to use the military in conjunction with humanitarian action to thwart violence and mitigate civilian suffering? This timely book seeks to answer this question by looking at the contemporary context and history of military-civilian interactions, developing a framework for assessing military costs and civilian benefits, and examinng in depth seven prominent cases from the 1990s_Northern Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, East Timor, and Kosovo. In the wake of U.S. efforts in Af

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is also codirector of the United Nations Intellectual History Project and editor of Global Governance.