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Additional Reading

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace: Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking, and Peace-Keeping (1992); David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention (2002); Simon Chesterman, Just War or Just Peace?: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (2001); J.L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane (eds.), Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political Dilemmas (2003).

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Duncan Bell

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Description	Contributor	Date
Invalidated site: Victoria University of Wellington - Humanitarian Intervention: Definitions and Criteria.	Emily Rodriguez	Mar 26, 2019
Add new Web site: Victoria University of Wellington - Humanitarian Intervention: Definitions and Criteria.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 23, 2016
Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Armed Humanitarian Intervention.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 23, 2016
Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - The Dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 23, 2016
New article added.	André Munro Duncan Bell	May 20, 2013
New bibliography added.	André Munro	May 20, 2013