A convoy of American military vehicles brings fresh water to Rwandan refugees at Camp Kimbumba, Zaire (1994). (This image is in the public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Roger Petersen
Prof. Barry Posen
MIT Course Number
17.478
As Taught In
Fall 2013
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course examines systematically, and comparatively, great and middle power military interventions, and candidate military interventions, into civil wars from the 1990s to the present. These civil wars did not easily fit into the traditional category of vital interest. These interventions may therefore tell us something about broad trends in international politics including the nature of unipolarity, the erosion of sovereignty, the security implications of globalization, and the nature of modern western military power.
