The emergence of humanitarian intervention : ideas and practice from the nineteenth century to the present /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016. ©2016 |
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| Description: | ix, 364 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Human rights in history Human rights in history. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10459692 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The emergence of humanitarian intervention: three centuries of 'enforcing humanity'
- Part I. Theoretical Approach and Legal Discourse on the Concept of Humanitarian Intervention
- 2. Humanitarianism and human rights: a troubled rapport
- 3. Humanitarian intervention and the issue of state sovereignty in the discourse of legal experts between the 1830s and the First World War
- 4. The legal justification of international intervention: theories of community and admissibility
- Part II. Fighting the Slave Trade and Protecting Religious Minorities: Major Impulses for Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
- 5. Enforcing abolition: the entanglement of civil society action, humanitarian norm-setting, and military intervention
- 6. Lord Vivian's tears: the moral hazards of humanitarian intervention
- 7. From protection to humanitarian intervention? Enforcing Jewish rights in Romania and Morocco around 1880
- Part III. Transferring a Concept to the Twentieth Century
- 8. Prudence or outrage? Public opinion and humanitarian intervention in historical and comparative perspective
- 9. Non-state actors' humanitarian operations in the aftermath of the First World War: the case of the Near East relief
- 10. Humanitarian intervention as legitimation of violence - the German case 1937-9
- Part IV. Limited Options or Further Development? Humanitarian Intervention during the Cold War
- 11. Cold War peacekeeping versus humanitarian intervention: beyond the Hammarskjoldian model
- 12. From the protection of sovereignty to humanitarian intervention? Traditions and developments of United Nations peacekeeping in the twentieth century
- Part V. A New Century of Humanitarian Intervention?
- 13. A not so humanitarian intervention
- 14. The responsibility to protect: foundation, transformation, and application of an emerging norm
- 15. Humanitarian interventions, past and present
- Index
- Bibliography
