Revisiting Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda and East Timor - sites of four of the worst instances of state-sponsored killing in the last half of the 20th century - this text reconsiders the success and failure of US and UN military and humanitarian intervention and looks at the future of peacekeeping.

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Title: The New Killing Fields
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0465008038
ISBN 13: 9780465008032
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Good

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The New Killing Fields revisits Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor-sites of four of the worst instances of state-sponsored killing in the last half of the twentieth century-in order to reconsider the success and failure of U.S. and U.N. military and humanitarian intervention.Through original essays and reporting by, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass, Philip Gourevitch, William Shawcross, George Packer, Bill Berkeley, and Samantha Power, The New Killing Fields reaches beyond headlines to ask vital questions about the future of peacekeeping in the next century. In addition, theoretical essays by Michael Walzer and Michael Ignatieff frame the issue of both past and future intervention in terms of today's post-Cold War reality. As human rights abuses increasingly occur in "failed states" such as Afghanistan, which pose international security threats, the future of human rights will not be, as it once was, considered solely a question of the beneficence and charity of the West. The prominent group of reporters and academics assembled here ponder these questions in light of their extensive experience, and reveal a fascinating set of conclusions, and further questions, about the future of human rights in the next century.

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Kira Brunner is an editor of Dissent, and Nicolaus Mills a professor of American studies at Sarah Lawrence College. They live in New York City.

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