Invoking Humanity - War, Law and Global Order

* Powerful, passionate and highly topical critique of humanitarian intervention* International political theorist with eight top-selling books"Whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat."In this first time translation in English, Danilo Zolo considers Carl Schmitt''s maxim in the context of the "humanitarian war" waged against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Spring of 1999 by 19 NATO countries. This erudite and disturbing book is a political, legal and philosophical reflection on an extraordinary display of Western Power and its present and future impact on the global system of international relations.Zolo''s account of the war is located within the context of the irresistible drive of globalization which he argues brings economic, financial and military, ecological and ethnic-religious turbulence in its wake. Not only the future of the Balkan region, he suggests, is at stake here, but the fate of international law, the future role of the United Nations and the political destiny of Europe.>

List of contents

Introduction
1. Imperial Mapping and Balkan Nationalism
2. Why the War was Fought
3. A War against Law
4. An International "Political Justice"
5. The Consequences of the War
Conclusion
From Kosovo Polje to Seattle: historico-political chronology 1389-1999

About the author

Danilo Zolo

Product details

• Authors: Danilo Zolo, Zolo Danilo
• Assisted by: Gordon Poole (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9780826456564
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-5656-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Political Theory and Contempor; Political Theory and Contempor
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, War and defence operations, War & defence operations