Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention

The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention rejects, on political, legal, ethical, and strategic grounds, the widespread claim that military force can be used effectively-and on the basis of a universal consensus-to stop mass atrocities. As such, it is an against-the-current treatment of an important practice in world politics.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Animating Idea


• Chapter 2: Altruism's Limits


• Chapter 3: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Intervention


• Chapter 4: The Legal Debate


• Chapter 5: Human Rights and Intervention


• Chapter 5: The Primacy of Pragmatism


• Chapter 7: War and Post-War


• Chapter 8: "The International Community"


• Conclusion

About the author

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science, City College of New York/City University of New York, and a Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Eugene B. Rumer, is Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (MIT Press, 2015). His most recent book for Oxford University Press, The End of Alliances, was published in 2007 and was named by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Title for that year.

Summary

The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention rejects, on political, legal, ethical, and strategic grounds, the widespread claim that military force can be used effectively-and on the basis of a universal consensus-to stop mass atrocities. As such, it is an against-the-current treatment of an important practice in world politics.

Additional text

[This] book serves as a sharp shot across the bow to those who urge the further entrenchment of - and who believe in the inevitability of - a deep, consistent policy of humanitarian intervention in all situations of mass atrocities."

Product details

• Authors: Menon, Rajan Menon, Rajan (Professor of Political Science Menon, Menon Rajan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780190692186
• ISBN: 978-0-19-069218-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Relations, Diplomacy, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Peacekeeping operations