Thesis
Confronting crisis
- Alternative title:
- norms, argumentation, and humanitarian intervention
- Abstract:
-
The purpose of this thesis is theory development. It begins by evaluating existing explanations of why states undertake humanitarian intervention. Realists argue that states only intervene when their national interests are at stake. Normative scholars argue that states are at times motivated to save foreign citizens. Neither approach adequately accounts for the pattern of post-Cold War state practice. Building from this conclusion, the thesis conducts research based on two propositions der...
Expand abstract
Actions
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2011
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
-
uuid:3844fb71-e9d7-4a37-a77d-8b51ce51b452
- Local pid:
- ora:5453
- Deposit date:
- 2011-06-15
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Travers, R
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- This thesis is not available in ORA.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record