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Book The Concept of Humanitarian Intervention in the Context of Modern Power Politics

Download or read book The Concept of Humanitarian Intervention in the Context of Modern Power Politics written by Hans Köchler and published by International Progress Organization. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Humanitarian Intervention

Download or read book A History of Humanitarian Intervention written by Mark Swatek-Evenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.

Book Humanitarian Intervention

Download or read book Humanitarian Intervention written by Thomas G. Weiss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singular development of the post Cold-War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and more recently Libya to Côte d'Ivoire, soldiers have rescued some civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. Could more be saved? Drawing on over two decades of research, Thomas G. Weiss answers "yes" and provides a persuasive introduction to the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention in the modern world. He examines political, ethical, legal, strategic, economic, and operational dimensions and uses a wide range of cases to highlight key debates and controversies. The updated and expanded second edition of this succinct and highly accessible survey is neither celebratory nor complacent. The author locates the normative evolution of what is increasingly known as "the responsibility to protect" in the context of the global war on terror, UN debates, and such international actions as Libya. The result is an engaging exploration of the current dilemmas and future challenges for robust international humanitarian action in the twenty-first century.

Book Humanitarian Military Intervention

Download or read book Humanitarian Military Intervention written by Taylor B. Seybolt and published by SIPRI Publication. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the reasons why humanitarian military interventions succeed or fail, basing his analysis on the interventions carried out in the 1990s in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo, and East Timor.

Book Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations

Download or read book Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations written by Jennifer M. Welsh and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of humanitarian intervention has generated one of the most heated debates in international relations since 1990 - among both theorists and practitioners. This volume investigates the controversial place of humanitarian intervention in the theory and practice of international relations.

Book Human Rights in War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Damien Rogers
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2022-03-20
  • ISBN : 9789811621154
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Human Rights in War written by Damien Rogers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of in-depth analyses on human rights violations committed in war. It offers myriad perspectives on the content and application of legal protections offered to civilians, including women, children and the elderly, and to others who are ‘no longer active in the fight.’ A series of carefully researched case studies illustrates the extent to which human rights violations occur in recent and current armed conflict, and signals the ways in which these violations are dealt with. Each of the contributing authors has been selected on the basis of their international academic reputation and/or professional standing within the human rights field. Given the alarming numbers of people harmed in recent and current armed conflict, this book will be of great interest to researchers, policymakers and opinion-shapers alike.

Book Humanitarian Intervention

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. L. Holzgrefe
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-02-13
  • ISBN : 9780521529280
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Humanitarian Intervention written by J. L. Holzgrefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics.

Book The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

Download or read book The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention written by Don E. Scheid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on philosophical, legal, and moral aspects of armed humanitarian intervention, including discussion of the 2011 bombing in Libya.

Book The Responsibility to Protect

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
  • Publisher : IDRC
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780889369634
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Responsibility to Protect written by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Book The Politics of Humanitarianism

Download or read book The Politics of Humanitarianism written by Antonio de Lauri and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success concerns have been raised that humanitarianism has increasingly become an economic enterprise and a political tool for controlling territories and governing international relations. In The Politics of Humanitarianism authors from a variety of disciplines provide a comprehensive critique of the humanitarian enterprise. How are those on the end of humanitarian action influenced by different epistemologies and applications of international law? What is the complex relationship between values - what humanitarian action is intended to be - and practice - what happens on the ground? Combining international case studies with critical theoretical evaluations, and including chapters on international aid, refugees, childhood and women's rights, The Politics of Humanitarianism offers a timely and critical analysis of the contemporary humanitarian system.

Book Global Challenges

Download or read book Global Challenges written by Iris Marion Young and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late twentieth century many writers and activists envisioned new possibilities of transnational cooperation toward peace and global justice. In this book Iris Marion Young aims to revive such hopes by responding clearly to what are seen as the global challenges of the modern day. Inspired by claims of indigenous peoples, the book develops a concept of self-determination compatible with stronger institutions of global regulation. It theorizes new directions for thinking about federated relationships between peoples which assume that they need not be large or symmetrical. Young argues that the use of armed force to respond to oppression should be rare, genuinely multilateral, and follow a model of law enforcement more than war. She finds that neither cosmopolitan nor nationalist responses to questions of global justice are adequate and so offers a distinctive conception of responsibility, founded on participation in social structures, to describe the obligations that both individuals and organizations have in a world of global interdependence. Young applies clear analysis and cogent moral arguments to concrete cases, including the wars against Serbia and Iraq, the meaning of the US Patriot Act, the conflict in Palestine/Israel, and working conditions in sweat shops.

Book Reading Humanitarian Intervention

Download or read book Reading Humanitarian Intervention written by Anne Orford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which democracy, self-determination and human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford provides critical readings of the narratives that accompanied such interventions and shaped legal justifications for the use of force by the international community. Through a close reading of legal texts and institutional practice, she argues that a far more circumscribed, exploitative and conservative interpretation of the ends of intervention was adopted during this period. The book draws on a wide range of sources, including critical legal theory, feminist and postcolonial theory, psychoanalytic theory and critical geography, to develop ways of reading directed at thinking through the cultural and economic effects of militarized humanitarianism. The book concludes by asking what, if anything, has been lost in the move from the era of humanitarian intervention to an international relations dominated by wars on terror.

Book The Norman Geras Reader

Download or read book The Norman Geras Reader written by Norman Geras and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to gather the key writings of the distinguished political theorist Norman Geras into a single volume, providing a comprehensive overview of the thinking of one of the most important Marxist philosophers in the post-war era. Among the essays included here are 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', 'The Duty to Bring Aid', 'Primo Levi and Jean Amery: Shame' and the contentious 'Euston Manifesto', which lays down a set of central principles for the democratic left in the twenty-first century. The reader is rounded out with several posts from Geras's much-loved and widely read 'Normblog', as well as companion essays by Alan Johnson and Terry Glavin, which explore how Geras's philosophical concerns led to his more recent, trenchant critiques of the direction of left-wing politics.

Book Just and Unjust Military Intervention

Download or read book Just and Unjust Military Intervention written by Stefano Recchia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars explore how the arguments of classical European thinkers relate to the ethics and politics of military intervention today.

Book Just War Or Just Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Chesterman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780199257997
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Just War Or Just Peace written by Simon Chesterman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks whether states have the right to intervene in foreign civil conflicts for humanitarian reasons. The UN Charter prohibits state aggression, but many argue that such a right exists as an exception to this rule. Offering a thorough analysis of this issue, the book puts NATO's action in Kosovo in its proper legal perspective.

Book Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century

Download or read book Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century written by Aiden Warren and published by EUP. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the complex ethics and politics of humanitarian interventionSince the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have transitioned through a range of stages. These 12 essays focus on the challenges associated with interventions, conflict and attendant human rights violations, unmitigatedand systematic violence, state re-building, and issues associated with human mobility and dislocation. Each chapter is linked to the rest through three defining themes that permeate the book: the evolution of humanitarian interventions in a global era; the limits of sovereignty and the ethics ofinterventions; and the politics of post-intervention: (re)-building and humanitarian engagement.

Book The United Nations and the Politics of Selective Humanitarian Intervention

Download or read book The United Nations and the Politics of Selective Humanitarian Intervention written by Martin Binder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. Over the past 20 years the United Nations has imposed economic sanctions, deployed peacekeeping operations, and even conducted or authorized military intervention in Somalia, Bosnia, or Libya. Yet no such measures were taken in other similar cases such as Colombia, Myanmar, Darfur—or more recently—Syria. What factors account for the UN’s selective response to humanitarian crises and what are the mechanism that drive—or block—UN intervention decisions? By combining fuzzy-set analysis of the UN’s response to more than 30 humanitarian crises with in depth-case study analysis of UN (in)action in Bosnia and Darfur, as well as in the most recent crises in Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and Syria, this volume seeks to answer these questions.