{"product_id":"agency-and-ethics-anthony-f-lang-jr-9780791451366","title":"Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplains why military interventions with humanitarian goals consistently fail.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does political conflict seem to consistently interfere with attempts to provide aid, end ethnic discord, or restore democracy? To answer this question, Agency and Ethics examines how the norms that originally motivate an intervention often create conflict between the intervening powers, outside powers, and the political agents who are the victims of the intervention. Three case studies are drawn upon to illustrate this phenomena: the British and American intervention in Bolshevik Russia in 1918; the British and French intervention in Egypt in 1956; and the American and United Nations intervention in Somalia in 1993. Although rarely categorized together, these three interventions shared at least one strong commonality: all failed to achieve their professed goals, with the troops being ignominiously recalled in each example. Lang concludes by addressing the dilemma of how to resolve complex humanitarian emergencies in the twenty-first century without the necessity of resorting to military intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony F. Lang Jr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791451364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791451366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.03w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2002 pg. 1660\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 161","brand":"Anthony F. Lang Jr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453388402943,"sku":"9780791451366","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_873d9ebf-9704-4cce-a8f5-9346817c5c95.jpg?v=1777299983","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/agency-and-ethics-anthony-f-lang-jr-9780791451366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}