In "First Do No Harm," David Gibbs raises basic questions about the
humanitarian interventions that have played a key role in U.S.
foreign policy for the past twenty years. Using a wide range of
sources, including government documents, transcripts of
international war crimes trials, and memoirs, Gibbs shows how these
interventions often heightened violence and increased human
suffering.
The book focuses on the 1991--99 breakup of Yugoslavia, which
helped forge the idea that the United States and its allies could
stage humanitarian interventions that would end ethnic strife. It
is widely believed that NATO bombing campaigns in Bosnia and Kosovo
played a vital role in stopping Serb-directed aggression, and thus
resolving the conflict.
Gibbs challenges this view, offering an extended critique of
Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "A Problem from Hell:
America in the Age of Genocide." He shows that intervention
contributed to the initial breakup of Yugoslavia, and then helped
spread the violence and destruction. Gibbs also explains how the
motives for U.S. intervention were rooted in its struggle for
continued hegemony in Europe.
"First Do No Harm" argues for a new, noninterventionist model
for U.S. foreign policy, one that deploys nonmilitary methods for
addressing ethnic violence.
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