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Zusatztext In this outstanding collection of new and previously published essays! one ofthe leading scholars of the international humanitarian order takes stock of developments that have been vastly consequential since the end of the Cold War. In developing his arguments Michael Barnett is intellectually incisive and politically astute. This book is required reading for all who are interested in the profound changes that have affected world politics during the last two decades.Peter J. KatzensteinWalter S. Carpenter! Jr. Professor of International Studies! Cornell UniversityOver the past fifteen years! Michael Barnett has emerged as the most thoughtful American scholarly voice on the dilemmas of humanitarianism. In these penetrating essays! he ranges widely! probing the role of political pragmatism and the impulse for moral transcendence in shaping contemporary humanitarianism.? Jack Snyder! Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations! Columbia UniversityRelying on personal experience and academic prudence! Barnett's collection does a?wonderful job of interrogating the rise of the International Humanitarian Order. Always insightful but never losing balance and perspective! Barnett refreshingly focuses on the intermeshing of ethics and power and! in so doing! overcomes the one-sidedness of much of the thinking on this topic.David Chandler! Professor of International Relations! University of WestminsterBarnett's breadth of expertise is complemented by his practical experience and he thus conveys an authoritative analysis that is surely unique in academic literature...this is a provocative! compelling and indeed inspiring book. Aidan Hehir! University of Westminster! Political Studies Review! Vol 10:3! Sept. 2012This volume provides us a vital opportunity to think and rethink ethically about how we understand and practice humanitarian activies! how we place ourselves in this 'living humanitariansim'! and how we face our own moral duties in international relations.Madoka Futamura! United Nations University Informationen zum Autor Michael Barnett is a retired Civil Engineer from Wellington, New Zealand. Initially, he worked as a geotechnician before moving to Chicago in 1967 to undertake advanced studies in Civil Engineering. During a career spanning fifty years, he travelled extensively in the 1970s, working in countries as diverse as Samoa, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Indonesia, the UAE, the USA, Australia, and latterly in Chile, Peru, Columbia, and Southeast Asia.Michael is a writer and a thinker with a special interest in national and international affairs. He reads extensively and writes about the political issues of the day, including their historical context. Klappentext One of the genuinely remarkable but relatively unnoticed developments of the last half-century is the blossoming of an international humanitarian order - a complex of norms, informal institutions, laws, and discourses that legitimate and compel various kinds of interventions by state and nonstate actors with the explicit goal of preserving and protecting human life. For those who have sacrificed to build this order, and for those who have come to rely on it, the international humanitarian represents a towering achievement cause for sobriety. What kind of international humanitarian order is being imagined, created and practiced? To what extent are the international agents of this order deliverers of progress or disappointment?Featuring previously published and original essays, this collection offers a critical assessment of the practices and politics of global ethical interventions in the context of the post-cold war transformation of the international humanitarian order. After an introduction that introduces the reader to the concept and the significance of the international humanitarian order, Section I explores the braided relationship between international order and the UN, whiles S...
