The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention
Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
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The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention
Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
About this book
How should the international community react when a government transgresses humanitarian norms and violates the human rights of its own nationals? And where does the responsibility lie to protect people from such acts of violation? In this profound study, Fabian Klose unites a team of leading scholars to investigate some of the most complex and controversial debates regarding the legitimacy of protecting humanitarian norms and universal human rights by non-violent and violent means. Charting the development of humanitarian intervention from its origins in the nineteenth century through to the present day, the book surveys the philosophical and legal rationales of enforcing humanitarian norms by military means, and how attitudes to military intervention on humanitarian grounds have changed over the course of three centuries. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, the authors lend a fresh perspective to contemporary dilemmas using case studies from Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The emergence of humanitarian intervention: three centuries of ‘enforcing humanity’
- Part I Theoretical approach and legal discourse on the concept of humanitarian intervention
- Part II Fighting the slave trade and protecting religious minorities: major impulses for humanitarian intervention in the nine eenth century
- Part III Transferring a concept to the twentieth century
- Part IV Limited options or further development? Humanitarian intervention during the Cold War
- Part V A new century of humanitarian intervention?
- Index