Military Responses to Refugee Disasters | 1996 | Publications
Military Responses to Refugee Disasters
Barry R. Posen
in Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller, eds., Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, an International Security reader (MIT Press: 1997) [Originally published in International Security Vol. 21, No. 1 (Summer 1996)]
The problem of refigees, both those who have crossed recognized international borders, and those "internally displaced" who have not, has recently achieved greater policy prominence in the developed world. The application of military power to this set of problems with often prove politically and militarily difficult.