Humanitarian intervention : confronting the contradictions /

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Author / Creator:Newman, Michael, 1946-
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
Description:xiii, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7773986
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ISBN:9780231154246 (alk. paper)
0231154240 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Boxes
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Cold War Era-Non-Intervention or a Humanitarian Exception
  • Non-Intervention and the Post-War Settlement
  • International Law: Constraints on Sovereignty?
  • Defending Non-Intervention
  • a. Non-Intervention and the Inside Face of Sovereignty
  • b. Non-Intervention from an International Perspective: The Outside Face of Sovereignty
  • Intervention and Non-Intervention in Practice
  • 2. The Post-Cold War Transformation
  • Attitudes towards Democracy, Human Rights and Sovereignty
  • International Institutions and Peace-Building
  • Democratisation and the Development of an International Human Rights Regime
  • Humanitarian Intervention
  • Part 1 Cases
  • Part 2 Arguments
  • a. Ethics and New Norms
  • b. International Social Conflict
  • c. Progressive Social Values
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Intervention
  • Human Rights, Regime Change and Humanitarian Intervention
  • Regime Change
  • Human Rights Violations or Humanitarian Violations?
  • Humanitarianism
  • The Traditional View: Humanitarianism as the Antithesis of Politics and Violence
  • The Perennial Dilemmas of Humanitarian Organizations
  • Rethinking Humanitarianism
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Inhumanity and Liberalism
  • Neo-liberalism and Violent Conflict
  • Ethnic Conflict and Market Dominant Minorities
  • Global Governance and New Wars
  • Transitions and Violence
  • Policy Prescriptions: The Liberal Peace
  • Angola
  • Rwanda
  • Conclusion
  • 5. After Intervention
  • International Administration or Liberal Imperialism?
  • International Governmental Regimes: Three Case Studies
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Kosovo
  • East Timor/Timor-Leste
  • Assessments and Lessons
  • 6. The Responsibility to Protect
  • Re-Thinking Humanitarian Intervention: Conceptual Issues
  • Development and Human Security
  • The Responsibility to Protect
  • Just Wars
  • Right Intention
  • Right Authority
  • A New Commitment or New Words?
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword: Facing the Future-Humanitarianism and Politics
  • Bibliography