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Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

Julie A. Mertus
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 133 - 150
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2001

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2 J. L. Holzgrefe developed this definition of humanitarian intervention for a roundtable on the subject at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, “After Kosovo: Humanitarian Intervention at the Crossroads,” January 18–19, 2001. This definition excludes non-forcible interventions as well as forcible interventions aimed at protecting or rescuing the intervening state's nationalsGoogle Scholar.

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