The Purpose of Intervention
- 173 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Finnemore examines changes over the past 400 years about why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened.


Finnemore examines changes over the past 400 years about why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened.
How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological...