Three Structural Problems

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In Bas Van Der Vossen & Fernando R. Tesón, Debating Humanitarian Intervention Should We Try to Save Strangers? New York, US: Oxford University Press. pp. 232-250 (2017)
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This chapter explains in greater detail why accepting the success condition means accepting the presumption against intervention. It identifies three structural problems that interventions must in general deal with: the problem of conflicting aims of intervention, the problem of severe lack of information, and the problem of perverse (democratic) incentives. These problems help explain the empirical finding that success rates for interventions have historically been extremely low.

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10.1093/oso/9780190202903.003.0013

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