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A Humanitarian Milestone? NATO's 1999 intervention in Kosovo and trends in military responses to mass violence
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Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Abstract NATO's 1999 intervention in Kosovo was highly contested and seen as a turning point in international responses to mass violence. Making use of a new dataset on so-called "humanitarian military interventions" since the Second World War, the author examines the extent to which the Kosovo intervention ... view more
NATO's 1999 intervention in Kosovo was highly contested and seen as a turning point in international responses to mass violence. Making use of a new dataset on so-called "humanitarian military interventions" since the Second World War, the author examines the extent to which the Kosovo intervention has indeed initiated new trends. A comparison with other cases shows that NATO’s Operation Allied Force differed from other military interventions with a declared humanitarian purpose. Moreover, the author introduces a typology of humanitarian military interventions and proposes a new measurement of their outcome that can facilitate comparative research.... view less
Keywords
NATO; violence; military intervention; humanitarian intervention; Kosovo
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
City
Frankfurt am Main
Page/Pages
35 p.
Series
PRIF Reports, 2
ISBN
978-3-946459-44-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed