Saving Strangers - Humanitarian Intervention in International Society

Zusatztext The book is an excellent introduction to its huge topic, using theories and examples to illustrate arguments clearly and concisely. For specialists it provides interesting and thought-provoking debate on solidarist theory. Informationen zum Autor Nick Wheeler, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Klappentext The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. While there are studies of each individual case of intervention--in East Pakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo--there is no single work that examines them comprehensively in a comparative framework. Zusammenfassung An examination of the extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in international society, this text maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Humanitarian Intervention and International Society India as Rescuer? Order versus Justice in the Bangladesh War of 1971 Vietnam's Intervention in Cambodia: The triumph of realism over common humanity? Good or bad precedent? Tanzania's Intervention in Uganda A Solidarist Movement in International Society? The case of Safe Havens and 'No-Fly' Zones in Iraq From Famine Relief to 'Humanitarian War'; the US and UN Intervention in Somalia Global Bystanders to Genocide: International Society and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 The Limit of Humanitarian Intervention from the Air: the cases of Bosnia and Kosovo A New Solidarity? Humanitarian Intervention and the Future of International Society ...

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• Authors: Nicholas J Wheeler, Nicholas J. Wheeler, Nicholas J. (Senior Lecturer Wheeler, Wheeler Nicholas J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2000
• EAN: 9780198296218
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829621-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Peacekeeping operations