Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
2 English School as Theoretical Paradigm for the Analysis of Humanitarian Interventions
2.1 International Society Theory: The Fundament of Solidarism and Pluralism
2.1.1 International Structure and Normative Assumptions
2.1.2 The Anatomy of International Society
2.1.3 The Five Institutions of International Society and the HI-Debate
2.2 The Solidarism-Pluralism Debate
2.3 The Theoretical Fundaments of the HI Debate (Chapter Summary)

3 The Humanitarian Intervention Debate (State of the Art)
3.1 Grotius and His Heirs: The Major Contributors to the HI Debate
3.2 From the HI Debate to the R2P Debate: Scholars Making Politics
3.2.1 What is the R2P?
3.2.2 R2P's Adaptation by International Society
3.2.3 R2P's Current State and Future
3.3 Leftovers: Humanitarian Intervention in IR Theory and International law
3.4 Abuse, Moral Hazard and Imperialism: Humanitarian Intervention's Dark Side
3.5 Framing the Humanitarian Intervention Debate (Chapter Summary)

4 Humanitarian Intervention: A Non-Normative and Analytical Definition
4.1 What is Humanitarian? Differing Views According to Motivation and Outcome
4.2 Armed Interferences: UNGAR 3314 and a Narrow Understanding of Intervention
4.3 Infringement on the Principle of Sovereignty: The Prerogative of Invitation
4.4 Massive Humanitarian Emergencies: The Shock of Mankind's Conscience
4.5 Humanitarian Motivation: The Interpretative Way
4.6 UNSC as the Only 'Competent Body': Infringement on the Principle of Non-Intervention

4.7 Positive Relief Effect: When the Outcome Justifies the Means
4.8 The Definition of Humanitarian Intervention (Chapter Summary)
5 Impact Theorems: Concretising the Solidarism-Pluralism Debate on HI
5.1 The Value Decay Cascade: Abusing Humanitarian Motivation
5.2 Eclipsing the Security Council: The Impact of UHI's on the Central Secondary Institution
5.3 Positive-Progressive Impact by UHIs? The Stick-and-Carrot Approach and the Re-Empowering of the UNSC
5.4 Impact Theorems as Fundament for the Operationalisation (Chapter Summary)
6 A Systematic Case Pre-Selection

6.1 Approach and Data Sets for the Pre-Selection
6.2 International Military Intervention Data Set
6.3 Major Episodes of Political Violence Data Set
6.4 Case Pre-Selection Step 1: Combined Military Interventions After Major Episodes of Political Violence Data Set
6.5 Case Pre-Selection Step 2: Possible Humanitarian Interventions Data Set
6.6 Identifying Possible Humanitarian Interventions (Chapter Summary)
7 Humanitarian Interventions in Contemporary History (1946-2005)
7.1 Congo Crisis (1960)
7.1.1 Belgian Evacuation Mission
7.1.2 The Original ONUC Peacekeeping Mission