Interventionist or internationalist? Coercion, self-determination, and humanitarianism in Third World practice

• Main Author: Patrick QUINTON-BROWN
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Global South; humanitarian intervention; international society; self-determination; sovereignty; Third World; International Relations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3892
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article argues that contemporary debates around intervention, and especially humanitarian intervention, have misunderstood the meaning of these concepts in Cold War international society. By comparing a specific kind of humanitarian interventionism with a specific kind of internationalism, that...