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Humanitarian Crises and Intervention
Walter C. Soderlund
其他書名
Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media
出版Kumarian Press, 2008
主題Political Science / Security (National & International)Political Science / Human RightsSocial Science / Disasters & Disaster ReliefSocial Science / Developing & Emerging CountriesSocial Science / Violence in SocietySocial Science / Media Studies
ISBN15654926179781565492615
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Wv8jKChrBSIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋As the Cold War began to wind down in the early '90s, former colonies were besieged by a string of humanitarian crises that killed millions of people and forced many millions more to leave their homes and livelihoods. A cruel paradox was revealed: just as the concept of Responsibility to Protect human rights was challenging the principle of State Sovereignty, no state with the capacity to do so was actually willing to intervene in a crisis based solely on humanitarian grounds.

This book takes a unique and comprehensive look at how the international community, led by the US, responded to ten humanitarian crises of the last decade and how major media outlets played a role in influencing (or failing to influence) action. Crises examined include Liberia, East Timor, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Angola, Haiti, and the Congo. Soderlund and Briggs apply the same analytic method to each case to discover why the international community was unwilling, time and time again, to address this new brand of conflict that appeared at the time.