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_bKER/J
100 1 _aKerton-Johnson, Nicholas
245 1 0 _aJustifying America's wars: the conduct and practice of US military intervention/
_cNicholas Kerton-Johnson.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2011.
300 _axiv, 191 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
440 _aContemporary security studies;
500 _a"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aLegitimacy in international relations -- Some methodological points -- An initial note on the cases -- Setting the context : intervention and norms in international society -- 1945-1990 -- 1990-2001 -- 2001 onwards -- Intervention norms and international society -- The Gulf War -- Background to the war -- President Bush's justifications for intervention -- UNSC -- The move to war -- The practice of intervention -- Post-war rebellion and safe-havens -- Conclusion: Old or new norms advanced? -- The Kosovo intervention -- Background and UNSC -- President Clinton's justifications for intervention -- The practice of intervention -- A humanitarian shift in international society? -- The intervention in Afghanistan -- Background to the intervention -- President Bush's justifications for the intervention -- UNSC -- The practice of intervention -- The Iraq War -- President Bush's justifications for the intervention -- UNSC -- The practice of intervention -- Revisiting the cases -- Justifications across the cases : a core legitimating norm? -- Practice across cases : standard practice? A shifting international society?
650 0 _aIntervention (International law)
650 0 _aJust war doctrine.
650 0 _aIntervention (International law)
650 0 _aJust war doctrine
650 0 _aPersian Gulf War, 1991.
650 0 _aKosovo War, 1998-1999.
650 0 _aAfghan War, 2001-
650 0 _aIraq War, 2003-2011.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary policy.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary policy
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