这个研讨会，目的是为了系统地、对比地检视在20世纪90年代或大或中的强权军事干预是如何转变为内战。在20世纪90年代，这些内战是西方国家政策的重要议程。然而，这些干预通常不是由明显的传统重大利益引发。在冷战过后，西方强大和中等势力享有极度安全，这些活动是令人费解。
The purpose of this seminar is to examine systematically, and comparatively, great and middle power military interventions into civil wars during the 1990's. These civil wars were high on the policy agenda of western states during the 1990's. Yet, these interventions were usually not motivated by obvious classical vital interests. Given the extraordinary security enjoyed by the great and middle powers of the west in the Cold War's aftermath, these activities are puzzling.
