Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century - Setting the Precedent

Informationen zum Autor Alexis Heraclides is Professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at the Department of Political Science and History of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens Ada Dialla is Assistant Professor of European History at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts Klappentext A comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Humanitarian intervention todayPart I. TheoryIntroduction2. The origins of the idea of humanitarian intervention: just war and against tyranny 3. Eurocentrism: 'civilization' and the 'barbarians'4. International law: advocacy and rejection of humanitarian intervention 5. Intervention and non-intervention in international political theoryPart II. PracticeIntroduction6. Intervention in the Greek War of Independence7. Intervention in Lebanon and Syria 8. The Bulgarian atrocities: a bird's eye view with emphasis on Britain 9. The Balkan Crisis of 1875-1878 and Russia: between humanitarianism and pragmatism 10. The U.S. intervention in CubaPart III11. ConclusionSelect bibliography on International Law until 1945Select bibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Ada Dialla, Alexis Heraclides, Alexis Dialla Heraclides
• Assisted by: Bertrand Taithe (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780719089909
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8990-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Humanitarianism: Mup; Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches; Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches; Humanitarianism: Key Debates a; Humanitarianism: Mup
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)