This book, part of the Amnesty International Global Ethics Series, contains two essays about international interventions in isolated conflicts. Rory Stewart, a member of the British parliament, reflects on why intervention in Iraq failed when it seemed likely to succeed. Gerald Knaus, a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, examines the UN intervention in Kosovo in the 1990s and why it seems to have been a success when the international community decided it was a failure. They are not academic essays, though they grew out of conversations in a course and study group at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2010-11. They are more concerned with what makes interventions fail and succeed than any moral or ethical questions about war or politics, though both authors agree that some situations call for intervention. Each essay starts with a detailed time-line of relevant events and ends with copious notes, but the book is not indexed. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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