This book explores the entire large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law, this book examines not only the use of force by states but also the role of the United Nations in peacekeeping and peacekeeping actions, and the growing importance of regional action.
Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that war is pervasive and that war is a social construc…