Clinton, peacekeeping and humanitarian interventionism rise and fall of a policy

This volume re-examines the evidence surrounding the rise and fall of peacekeeping policy during the first Clinton Administration. Specifically, it asks: what happened to cause the Clinton Executive to abandon its previously favoured policy platform of humanitarian multilateralism? [This book] aims...

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Main Author: Murray, Leonie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York Routledge, 2007
Series:Cass series on peacekeeping
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