Can Intervention Work?: Amnesty International Global Ethics Series (Norton Global Ethics Series): 0 - Hardcover

Rory Stewart; Gerard Knaus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393081206 ISBN 13: 9780393081206

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011

Synopsis

Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus distil their remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of "nation building". As they delve into the massive, military-driven efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans, the expansion of the EU, and the bloodless "colour" revolutions in the former Soviet states, the authors reveal each effort's enormous consequences for international relations, human rights and our understanding of state-building. Stewart and Knaus carefully parse the philosophies that have informed interventionism-from neoconservative to liberal imperialist-and draw on their diverse experiences in the military, non-governmental organisations and the Iraqi provincial government to reveal what we can ultimately expect from large-scale interventions and how they might best realise positive change in the world.

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Review:

I devoured this brilliant Burkean tract at a sitting. Is it too much to hope that it will be read not just in Downing Street and the Foreign Office, but also the State Department and the White House? --Peter Oborne, The Telegraph

About the Author:

Rory Stewart is a Member of Parliament and the best-selling author of The Prince of the Marshes and The Places In Between. Gerald Knaus, founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative, is a Carr Center Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393081206
• ISBN 13: 9780393081206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144