From Kosovo to Darfur: The Regional Biases within Humanitarian Military Interventionism

Why are some violent crises more likely to prompt humanitarian military interventions than others?Conventional wisdom says that humanitarian military interventions occur due to national interests, shared values and norms, or economic benefits for the interveners.Yet neither of these factors can fully explain the selectivity of such interventions.The international community continues to ignore the decades-long suffering in Darfur, often dismisses the genocidal policies within Myanmar, and even perpetuates the suffering in contemporary Yemen, while undertaking humanitarian-laden missions in Libya, Syria, and the Balkans. Using in-depth case studies and new data on all post-Cold War internal armed conflicts matched to third-party responses, From Kosovo to Darfur offers the first regionally sensitive analysis of humanitarian military intervention since the end of the Cold War.It shows that international military interventions in the context of acute humanitarian crises are driven by differ