Het fiasco van de westerse aanwezigheid in Afghanistan doet de vraag ontstaan of humanitaire interventies nog wel zin hebben. Veel hangt af van wat er beoogd wordt. Ingrijpen in Bosnië en Kosovo heeft het concrete doel van het stoppen van een burgeroorlog en het voorkomen van genocide dichterbij …

Aanleiding, doel en opzet onderzoek Dit state-of-the-art onderzoek Statelijke Dreigingen is door de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV) aangevraagd bij het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoeks- en Documentatiecentrum (WODC) van het Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid in het …

In crisis areas, military and civilian missions are often simultaneously active, but they have different mandates and are executed by different organisations. Also the way those organisations leave a country after an intervention differs. This article provides a comparison between the military (ISAF/NTM-A) …

This article reviews the international efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1991. It concludes that while there have been several strategies of dealing with that country both during and after the war, very few of these have actually produced the desired outcomes. In spite of successes in the sphere …

The authors show that in debates between the old schools of Liberals and Idealists and recent offspring within these schools, the main argument concerns the moral responsibility of states and statesmen. Their discussion of Carr reappear among advocates of present-day humanitarian interventions. They …

This paper focuses on three questions. Firstly, what causes civilian actors and the military to cooperate? Secondly, is civil-military cooperation limited to specific areas and, finally, how to decide to which civil-military alliances time and energy should be devoted? The authors describe an episode …