Humanitarian intervention /
Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2006. |
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Description: | xii, 308 p. ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Nomos ; 47 |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5892964 |
Summary: | Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. All are examples where humanitarian intervention has been called into action. This timely and important new volume explores the legal and moral issues which emerge when a state uses military force in order to protect innocent people from violence perpetrated or permitted by the government of that state. Humanitarian intervention can be seen as a moral duty to protect but it is also subject to misuse as a front for imperialism without regard to international law. |
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Item Description: | "Emerged from the papers and commentaries presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP), held in conjunction with the American Political Science Association meetings in Boston in September 2002"--Pref. |
Physical Description: | xii, 308 p. ; 22 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780814758311 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814758312 (cloth : alk. paper) |