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INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION This page intentionally left blank INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION Sovereignty versus Responsibility Edited by MICHAEL KEREN and DONALD A. SYLVAN First Published in 2002 by Frank Cass Publishers Published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informabusiness Copyright collection © 2002 Taylor & Francis Copyright chapters © 2002 contributors British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: International intervention: sovereignty versus responsibility 1. Intervention (International law) 2. Sovereignty I. Keren, Michael II. Sylvan, Donald A. 327.1'72 ISBN 978-0-714-65192-7 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-714-68194-8 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: International intervention: sovereignty versus responsibility / edited by Michael Keren and Donald A. Sylvan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7146-5192-3 - ISBN 0-7146-8194-6 (pbk.) 1. Humanitarian intervention. I. Keren, Michael. II. Sylvan, Donald A. JZ6369 .I58 2002 341.5'84-dc21 2002020817 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Typeset in 11/13pt Ehrhardt by Vitaset, Paddock Wood, Kent ISBN 978-1-315-04003-5 (eISBN) Contents Notes on Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii THEORY AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION 1 Theory and Humanitarian Intervention 3 Howard Adelman COGNITIVE AND DOMESTIC SOURCES OF INTERVENTION 2 Intellectuals without Borders 27 Michael Keren 3 When is Intervention Likely? 40 Arie Nadler 4 Deciding whether to Intervene 56 Donald A. Sylvan and Jon C. Pevehouse 5 The Media and International Intervention 75 Akiba Cohen CONSTRAINTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF INTERVENTION 6 The UN Experience in Modern Intervention 95 Rudiger Wolfrum 1 Intervention as a Challenge for the Military 114 Gustav Daniker 8 Canadian Discourse on Peacekeeping 126 Barry Cooper 9 Multilateral Intervention and the International Community 147 Bruce Cronin SCHOLARS AGAINST GENOCIDE 10 Scholars against Genocide 169 Neal Riemer Index 183 Notes on Contributors Prof. Howard Adelman Department of Philosophy York University Prof. Akiba Cohen Department of Communication Tel-Aviv University Prof. Barry Cooper Department of Political Science The University of Calgary Prof. Bruce Cronin Department of Political Science Univerisity of Wisconsin-Madison Dr Major General (Ret.) Gustav Daniker Swiss Army Prof. Michael Keren Department of Communication Tel Aviv University Prof. Arie Nadler Department of Psychology Tel-Aviv University Jon C. Pevehouse Department of Political Science University of Wisconsin Vlll International Intervention Prof. Emeritus Neal Riemer Department of Political Science Drew University Prof. Donald A. Sylvan Department of Political Science Ohio State University Prof. Dr Rudiger Wolfrum Director, Max Planck Institut Fur Auslandiches Offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht Preface National sovereignty, defined as a nation’s right to exercise its own law and practice over its territory, is a cherished norm in the modern era, and yet it raises great legal, political and ethical dilemmas. Should sovereignty be respected under all conditions or are there instances in which interference in a state’s internal affairs becomes not only a right but a duty? What responsibility do striking violations of international norms committed within a sovereign state pose to the international community? What constitutes an international ‘community’ in this regard and under what conditions and restraints could it intervene? What should be the role of domestic forces and international bodies in defining the need to intervene and how can justified intervention be distinguished from sheer breech of sovereignty? Since the end of the Cold War, these questions have shifted from the realm of theory to the domain of practice. Policy makers all over the world are haunted by the sovereignty versus responsibility dilemma which lies at the core of the emerging international order, and may be expected to become even more central in the future. As part of the Bertelsmann International Conferences organized by Tel- Aviv University, a distinguished group of international lawyers, political scientists, philosophers, social psychologists, communications experts and military practitioners from Europe, North America and Israel met in Berlin in December 1996 to discuss the above dilemma. This book contains selected articles presented at this unique conference. During the period it took to prepare the articles for publication, they had to be updated several times, as atrocities never seem to end and the dilemmas of international intervention are ever present. This collection, marked by its interdisciplinary nature, as well as by a balance between scholarly approaches and humanitarian concerns, is presented with a sense of urgency enhanced by recent events in Kosovo, East Timor and elsewhere which brought to bear both the tragedy of inaction and
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