International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World: Moral Responsibility and Power PoliticsMichael C. Davis M.E. Sharpe, 2004 - 332 pages International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. First, it pits the principle of state sovereignty against claims of universal human rights. Second, the motivations of intervening states may be open to question when avowals of moral action are arguably the fig leaf covering an assertion of power for political advantage. These questions have been salient in the context of the Balkan and African wars and U.S. policy in the Middle East. This volume undertakes a serious, systematic, and broadly international review of the issues. |
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Humanitarian Intervention | 23 |
Legitimacy and Lawfulness of Humanitarian Intervention | 40 |
Human Rights and the Question of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals | 60 |
Problematizing Sovereignty Relative Sovereignty in the Historical Transformation of Interstate and StateSociety Relations | 83 |
Weak States State Making and Humanitarian Intervention With a View from the Peoples Republic of China | 104 |
Humanitarian Intervention The Interplay of Norms and Politics | 123 |
Redefining Human BeingsWhere Politics Meets Metaphysics | 145 |
Reflections on the War on Terrorism | 179 |
The New NATO An Instrument for the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights? | 201 |
NATOs War Over Kosovo The Debates Dynamics and Consequences | 222 |
The Reluctant Intervenor The UN Security Council Chinas Worldview and Humanitarian Intervention | 241 |
Human Rights and Intervention in Africa | 254 |
Distributive Justice Globalization and International Intervention The New Roles of Multilateral Institutions | 275 |
The Power of Responsible Peace Engendering Reconstruction in Kosova | 297 |
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