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Multilateral Military Responses

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Book cover The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies

Part of the book series: Studies in Development Economics and Policy ((SDEP))

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Experimentation with humanitarian delivery and protection continues as a dominant characteristic of world politics. The collective inability to act early highlights that ‘prevention’ has penetrated international discourse but not practice. The most striking Western reaction to humanitarian crises in the last half decade has been unleashing the humanitarian impulse, with outside military forces in the avant-garde.1

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  1. Thomas G. Weiss
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Kansas State University, USA

    E. Wayne Nafziger (University Distinguished Professor of Economics) (University Distinguished Professor of Economics)

  2. Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

    Raimo Väyrynen (Professor of Government and International Studies, Director) (Professor of Government and International Studies, Director)

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© 2002 The United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER)

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Weiss, T.G. (2002). Multilateral Military Responses. In: Nafziger, E.W., Väyrynen, R. (eds) The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403905321_12

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