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Why are we bothered by intervention? What kind of.a problem is intervention? Intervention involves altering the balance of power in a state. In order to differentiate intervention from a constant process of influence we need to develop a theory of intervention which distinguishes alteration from mere influence. Such a theory would demonstrate the various ways in which such alterations may be achieved and the conditions under which they are likely to occur. This is a process of building middle-range theories of international relations. But intervention also raises questions of a first-order kind which entail something more than middle-range theories.
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See R. Higgins, International Law and the Reasonable Need of Governments to Govern, Inaugural Lecture, London School of Economics, 1982.
R. Cohen, Theatre of Power (London, 1987).
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Navari, C. (1993). Intervention, Non-Intervention and the Construction of the State. In: Forbes, I., Hoffman, M. (eds) Political Theory, International Relations, and the Ethics of Intervention. Southampton Studies in International Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22913-0_4
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