ISBN:
9780521190275
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0521190274
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9781107673328
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 408 S.
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Kt.
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24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Year of publication:
2011
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. bei Cambridge Humanitarian intervention
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Humanitarian intervention
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Humanitarian intervention
DDC:
341.5/8409
Keywords:
Humanitarian intervention History
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Humanitarian intervention Case studies
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Humanitarian intervention
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History
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Humanitäre Intervention
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Internationale Politik
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Geschichte 1500-1990
Abstract:
"The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyranny and to religious persecution evolved from notions of the common interests of 'Christendom' to ultimately incorporate all people under the concept of 'human rights'. As well as examining specific episodes of intervention, the authors consider how these have been perceived and justified over time, and offer important new insights into ideas of national sovereignty, international relations and law, as well as political thought and the development of current theories of 'international community'"--
Note:
1.Towards a history of humanitarian intervention
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Part I.Early-Modern Precedents:2.'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people': interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early-modern Europe
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Part II.The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire:5.'From an umpire to a competitor': Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars
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Part III.Intervening in Africa:10.The price of legitimacy in humanitarian intervention: Britain, the right of search and the abolition of the West African slave trade, 1807-1867
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Part IV.Non-European States:13.Humanitarian intervention, democracy, and imperialism: the American war with Spain, 1898, and after
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Part V.Postscript:16.Humanitarian intervention since 1990 and 'liberal interventionism'
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