A Humanitarian Milestone? NATO's 1999 intervention in Kosovo and trends in military responses to mass violence

Arbeitspapier | Working paper

NATO's 1999 intervention in Kosovo was highly contested and seen as a turning point in international responses to mass violence. Making use of a new dataset on so-called "humanitarian military interventions" since the Second World War, the author examines the extent to which the Kosovo intervention has indeed initiated new trends. A comparison with other cases shows that NATO’s Operation Allied Force differed from other military interventions with a declared humanitarian purpose. Moreover, the author introduces a typology of humanitarian military interventions and proposes a new measurement of their outcome that can facilitate comparative research.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-3-946459-44-6
• Extent: Seite(n): 35
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: PRIF Reports (2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Politikwissenschaft ; Internationale Beziehungen ; Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik ; internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik ; NATO ; Gewalt ; militärische Intervention ; humanitäre Intervention ; Kosovo

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gromes, Thorsten
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• (where): Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main
• (when): 2019

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-63298-1
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST