Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention
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Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention

A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions

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eBook - PDF

Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention

A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions

About this book

Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of "unity in diversity."

A special feature of the book, which avoids the charge of ethnocentricity brought against other approaches, is that Lepard shows how passages from the revered texts of seven world religions may be interpreted as supporting these ethical principles. In connecting law with ethics and religion in this way, he takes a major step forward in the effort to formulate a normative basis for international law in our multicultural world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  7. Note on Transliteration
  8. Part I: The Problem of Humanitarian Intervention and International Law
  9. Part II: Developing the Foundations of a Fresh Approach
  10. Part III: Some Problematic Issues Relating to U.N.-Authorized Humanitarian Intervention
  11. Part IV: Humanitarian Intervention Not Authorized by the Security Council
  12. Part V: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law in the New Millennium
  13. Notes
  14. Glossary
  15. Selected Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover