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The book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume have a dual focus. First, they analyse the practices of Western intervention and peacebuilding, and the prejudices and politics that drive them. Second, they explore how communities experience and deal with the intervention, as well as an understanding of how their political and economic priorities can often diverge markedly from those of the intervener. This is achieved through theoretical and thematic chapters, and an extensive number of in-depth empirical case studies. Utilising a variety of conceptual frameworks and disciplines, the book seeks to understand why something so normatively desirable - the pursuit of, and building of, peace - has turned out so badly. From Cambodia to Afghanistan, Iraq to Mali, interventions in the pursuit of peace have not achieved the results desired by the interveners. Rather, they have created further instability and violence. The contributors to this book explore why.

PEACE-BUILDING --- PEACEKEEPING FORCES --- INTERVENTION (INTERNATIONAL LAW) --- HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

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This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society. A consolidated norm in international society is defined here as a regularised pattern of behaviour that is widely accepted as appropriate within a given social context. The analysis is based on the assumption that R2P could be regarded as a consolidated norm if it were applied consistently when genocide and other mass atrocities occur; and if international responses routinely conformed to the core principles inherent in R2P : seeking government consent, multilateralism, prevention and regionalism. This book employs Finnemore and Sikkink's norm life cycle model to determine the putative norm's degree of consolidation, with in-depth case studies of the international responses to crises in Darfur and Kenya serving to illuminate the findings. It advances the argument that, whilst R2P had fully emerged as a prospective norm by 2005, it has not yet fully consolidated as an international norm. R2P has been remarkably successful at pervading the international discourse but has been somewhat less successful at consistency in implementation in terms of adherence to its core principles as outlined above (the qualitative dimension of R2P). Furthermore, it has been least successful, to date, in terms of consistency across cases in terms of resolve and tenacity. The volume concludes with a reflection on the norm's progress so far, and its prospects for further consolidation, assuming R2P continues on its current trajectory.

RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (INTERNATIONAL LAW) --- HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

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Humanitarian assistance --- Humanitarian intervention --- Evaluation. --- Management.

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International law and human rights --- Democratization --- Nation-building --- Humanitarian intervention --- Intervention (International law) --- Democratization

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"There is a veritable cottage industry of books on humanitarian intervention (the use of military force to stop atrocities) and the vast majority favors the project. The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention challenges this consensus by pointing up the strategic, legal, and ethical problems associated with it. The book also disputes the claim that humanitarian intervention, particularly as manifested in the doctrine of "The Responsibility to Protect," has become a universal norm that offers a comprehensive and effective solution to mass killing"--

Humanitarian intervention --- Intervention (International law) --- National security --- International relations --- Humanitarian intervention. --- Intervention (international law). --- National security. --- International relations. --- Political science / political freedom & security / human rights. --- Political science / international relations / general.