Publisher's Synopsis
Intervention is one of the essential and perennial issues in international relations. This book, based on a series of lectures given at Oxford University, provides a re-examination of the issue of coercive interference by outside parties in the internal affairs of foreign states. Such a re-examination is topical because of the progress of Soviet intervention in the Third World, and the recovery of belief in military intervention in the USA so soon after a period of deep disillusionment with it. The scepticism evident in Western Europe about this belief, and the discovery of a new rationale for intervention where access to resources, especially where oil is concerned, adds a new dimension of interest.
