Publication

This paper looks at the emerging norm of humanitarian intervention and the motivation of democracies to intervene in non-democracies for the purpose of regime change. The authors believe that the recent Iraq war shows that forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful with regard to securing peace. The paper states that over the period 1961–96 this kind of democratization appears to have had relatively little effect in terms of moving countries up into the category of democracies.