Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention

Timothy W. Crawford is assistant professor of political science at Boston College. He has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton’s Center of International Studies, and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. He is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a faculty associate of the Olin Institute of Strategic Studies, and a member of the board of directors of America Abroad Media., Alan J. Kuperman is assistant professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He was formerly resident assistant professor of international relations, and director of the international relations program, at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy. He has received fellowships from Harvard University, MIT, the University of Southern California, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics.

• Introduction, Timothy W. Crawford, Alan J. Kuperman; Chapter 1 Suicidal Rebellions and the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention, Alan J. Kuperman; Chapter 2 Moral Hazard, Intervention and Internal War, Timothy W. Crawford; Chapter 3 Third-party Intervention and Escalation in Kosovo, Arman Grigorian; Chapter 4 Conflict Management and the Misapplication of Moral Hazard Theory, Robert W. Rauchhaus; Chapter 5 Illusions of Moral Hazard, Jon Western; Chapter 6 The Hazards of Thinking about Moral Hazard, R. Harrison Wagner;

"The studies in this volume help us understand the dynamic background of domestic wars, wars of secession, politicides, and genocides. They serve as a useful corrective to media treatments of these issues, treatments that are often oversimplified in their haste to classify perpetrators and victims. The arguments in the seven essays of the volume are compelling, often relying on close examination of assumptions and the empirical evidence. A scientific enterprise, depending upon carefully marshalled evidence and rigorous logical analysis, helps to move us away from the rather mushy literature tha has been the hallmark of the humanitatian intervention discourse to date...The authors of this volume have made a major contribution in showing the way forward to a more reliable understanding of rebellions, wars, politicides, and genocides."-Kalevi J. Holsti, Journal of Genocide Research