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"The past decade has witnessed key developments in the nature of both war and intervention. Armed movements direct their focus on civilians, through terror, administration and propaganda. Paramilitary groups are widespread, and have diverse sources of funding and arms. At the same time, peace operations have expanded in both breadth and depth. Not only has the United Nations assumed the transitional governance of territory, and the accompanying direct executive powers, but other actors, from national military contingents to the World Bank and NGOs, have also adapted to meet this cascade of tasks. """"War and Intervention"""" explains how armed forces, aid agencies and transitional administrations in war-affected countries have adapted to the changing circumstances of modern war and conflict, using a broad range of cases to introduce the reader to the dynamics on the ground. Michael Bhatia's analysis becomes all the more important at a time when the debate continues about the United States' global position, the United Nations' role, and current and proposed interventions, in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq. The book is written to allow readers from a range of different disciplines - military, academic, humanitarian, political and diplomatic - to understand the priorities and methods of different actors in today's peace operations."

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This book was written before the US military intervention in Iraq, making its conclusion all the more percipient and poignant. War and Intervention is a highly readable, hard-nosed update on the dilemmas and contradictions of warfare, before and after the Cold War, before and after September 11, 2001. It is valuable both as a history and as a guide to the complexity of intervention - military, diplomatic, political and humanitarian - in today's increasingly complicated and multifarious battlegrounds. Bhatia's analysis suggests the value of caution and humility regarding America's ability to control international events. A useful guide to the complex operations to which America increasingly commits its military, unintentionally illustrates the case for a more cautious and restrained approach to peacekeeping and nation-building. This most topical publication covers military peace interventions up to the 2003 Iraq war. . .[it is] prophetic in view of the Iraq intervention.

War and Intervention is a highly readable, hard-nosed update on the dilemmas and contradictions of warfare, before and after the Cold War, before and after September 11, 2001. It is valuable both as a history and as a guide to the complexity of intervention - military, diplomatic, political and humanitarian - in today's increasingly complicated and multifarious battlegrounds. Bhatia's analysis suggests the value of caution and humility regarding America's ability to control international events. A useful guide to the complex operations to which America increasingly commits its military, unintentionally illustrates the case for a more cautious and restrained approach to peacekeeping and nation-building. This book was written before the US military intervention in Iraq, making its conclusion all the more percipient and poignant. This most topical publication covers military peace interventions up to the 2003 Iraq war. . .[it is] prophetic in view of the Iraq intervention.

"""""War and Intervention"" is a highly readable, hard-nosed update on the dilemmas and contradictions of warfare, before and after the Cold War, before and after September 11, 2001. It is valuable both as a history and as a guide to the complexity of intervention - military, diplomatic, political and humanitarian - in today's increasingly complicated and multifarious battlegrounds."" ""Bhatia's analysis suggests the value of caution and humility regarding America's ability to control international events. A useful guide to the complex operations to which America increasingly commits its military, unintentionally illustrates the case for a more cautious and restrained approach to peacekeeping and nation-building."" ""This book was written before the US military intervention in Iraq, making its conclusion all the more percipient and poignant."" ""This most topical publication covers military peace interventions up to the 2003 Iraq war. . .[it is] prophetic in view of the Iraq intervention."""

This most topical publication covers military peace interventions up to the 2003 Iraq war. . .[it is] prophetic in view of the Iraq intervention.

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