Values and Weapons

Values and Weapons looks at the determinants of legitimacy for using military force in the US and Europe. Sovereignty has been redefined to be conditional on democratic government, and this makes it much easier to intervene into non-democratic states.

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JANNE HAALAND MATLARY is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. She was Deputy Foreign Minister for Norway from 1997-2000. She has previously published two books with Palgrave Macmillan, Energy Policy in the European Union (1997) and Intervention for Human Rights in Europe (2002).

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Acknowledgements Introduction: The Rules of the Game Conditional Sovereignty: Changes in and Fragmentation of State Sovereignty The Non-Intervention Norm and Intervention Practice in the 1990s The Changing Intervention Norm: The Realpolitik of Human Rights Legitimacy in Europe: Multilateral and UN-Based Legitimacy in the USA: National Interests and Values Differing Legitimacy: United over Kosovo and Afghanistan, Divided over Iraq 'Failed' States and Terrorism: The Good Meets the Expedient? 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Assessment of Normative Change Intervention for 'Regime Change': Assessment of Normative Change Conclusions Bibliography Index