Unauthorised Humanitarian Interventions In World Politics

Author : Christian Pohlmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658321796

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Unauthorised Humanitarian Interventions in World Politics by Christian Pohlmann Pdf

The question if states should intervene in massive humanitarian emergencies without a legal right to do so, is still object of an important debate in the theory and practice of international relations. This situation has not changed with the emergence of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ norm, which stopped short of a right to intervene without a Security Council authorisation. The book assesses the impact of such unauthorised humanitarian interventions on international society and regions; it is written in the context of the English School of International Relations. Based on empirical studies the author argues that they can be progressive-constructive for international order, if conducted with explicit legitimacy, integrity, and great power participation. The argument is based on the analysis of six cases conducted between 1946 and 2005. Specific consideration is given to the cases of Liberia (1990) and Kosovo (1999). In sum, the book contributes to the solidarism-pluralism debate and the discourse on humanitarian interventions.

Author : Jennifer M. Welsh
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199267217

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Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations by Jennifer M. Welsh Pdf

The issue of humanitarian intervention has generated one of the most heated debates in international relations since 1990 - among both theorists and practitioners. This volume investigates the controversial place of humanitarian intervention in the theory and practice of international relations.

Author : Hedley Bull
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:39000001051379

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Intervention in World Politics by Hedley Bull Pdf

This book is the best guide to the complexities of intervention now available. The issues raised by it will remain important and divisive for some time.'___ The Times Literary Suplement.

Author : J. L. Holzgrefe,Robert O. Keohane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 052152928X

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Humanitarian Intervention by J. L. Holzgrefe,Robert O. Keohane Pdf

An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics.

Author : Timo Kivimäki
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humanitarian intervention
ISBN : 9781788111010

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The Failure to Protect by Timo Kivimäki Pdf

Timo Kivimaki investigates the reasons behind, and consequences of, military operations by Western powers. It focuses on those interventions aimed at protecting civilians from terror, dictators and criminals in fragile states. In doing so it contributes to the cosmopolitan, feminist and post-colonial literature on humanitarian interventions.

Author : Michael C. Davis,Wolfgang Dietrich,Bettina Scholdan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315498157

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International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World by Michael C. Davis,Wolfgang Dietrich,Bettina Scholdan Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas J. Wheeler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198296218

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Saving Strangers by Nicholas J. Wheeler Pdf

The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in thecold war and post-cold war periods. Crucially, the book examines how far international society has recognised humanitarian intervention as a legitimate exception to the rules of sovereignty and non-intervention and non-use of force. While there are studies of each case of intervention - in EastPakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo - there is no single work that examines them comprehensively in a comparative framework. Each chapter tells a story of intervention that weaves together a study of motives, justifications and outcomes. The legitimacy ofhumanitarian intervention is contested by the 'pluralist' and 'solidarist' wings of the English school, and the book charts the stamp of these conceptions on state practice. Solidarism lacks a full-blown theory of humanitarian intervention and the book supplies one. A key focus is to examine how ishumanitarian intervention legitimate in present diplomatic dialogues. In exploring how far there has been a change of norm in the society of states in the 1990s, the book defends the broad based constructivist claim that state actions will be constrained if they cannot be legitimated, and that newnorms enable new practices but do not determine these. The book concludes by considering how far contemporary practices of humanitarian intervention support a new solidarism, and how far this resolves the traditional conflict between order and justice in international society.

Author : Rajan Menon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199384877

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The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention by Rajan Menon Pdf

"There is a veritable cottage industry of books on humanitarian intervention (the use of military force to stop atrocities) and the vast majority favors the project. The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention challenges this consensus by pointing up the strategic, legal, and ethical problems associated with it. The book also disputes the claim that humanitarian intervention, particularly as manifested in the doctrine of "The Responsibility to Protect," has become a universal norm that offers a comprehensive and effective solution to mass killing"--

Author : James Pattison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191609787

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Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect by James Pattison Pdf

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently. The doctrine of the responsibility to protect asserts that when a state is failing to uphold its citizens' human rights, the international community has a responsibility to protect these citizens, including by undertaking humanitarian intervention. It is unclear, however, which particular agent should be tasked with this responsibility. Should we prefer intervention by the UN, NATO, a regional or subregional organization (such as the African Union), a state, a group of states, or someone else? This book answers this question by, first, determining which qualities of interveners are morally significant and, second, assessing the relative importance of these qualities. For instance, is it important that an intervener have a humanitarian motive? Should an intervener be welcomed by those it is trying to save? How important is it that an intervener will be effective and what does this mean in practice? The book then considers the more empirical question of whether (and to what extent) the current interveners actually possess these qualities, and therefore should intervene. For instance, how effective can we expect UN action to be in the future? Is NATO likely to use humanitarian means? Overall, it develops a particular normative conception of legitimacy for humanitarian intervention. It uses this conception of legitimacy to assess not only current interveners, but also the desirability of potential reforms to the mechanisms and agents of humanitarian intervention.

Author : Cyrille J.C.F. Fijnaut,Joris Larik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004445482

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Humanitarian Intervention and Political Support for Interstate Use of Force by Cyrille J.C.F. Fijnaut,Joris Larik Pdf

When can a state give political support to a military intervention in another state? The Government of the Netherlands commissioned an Expert Group to examine this complex, topical and time-sensitive question and to consider whether it should press for international acceptance of humanitarian intervention as a new legal basis for the use of force between states in exceptional circumstances. This volume is the result of those efforts. The Expert Group was led by Professor Cyrille Fijjnaut and consisted of Mr. Kristian Fischer, Professor Terry Gill, Professor Larissa van den Herik, Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Professor Claus Kreß, Mr. Robert Serry, Ms. Monika Sie Dhian Ho, Ms. Elizabeth Wilmshurst and Professor Rob de Wijk. Their thorough analysis and recommendations offer important insights that can aid governments in formulating a position on political support for the use of force between states and humanitarian intervention. The volume also constitutes a useful tool for scholars and practitioners in considering these difficult and important issues.

Author : Hans Köchler
Publisher : International Progress Organization
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : 3900704201

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The Concept of Humanitarian Intervention in the Context of Modern Power Politics by Hans Köchler Pdf

Author : Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349268948

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World Orders in the Making by Jan Nederveen Pieterse Pdf

Humanitarian action confronts us with the dilemmas of international relations in the age of globalization. The approach in this book is holistic, comparative and analytical. Humanitarian intervention is considered from the point of view of political economy, public administration, international relations, international law, the military, political theory, sociology, culture and media studies. Chapters discuss experiences across Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Iraq, Haiti and other cases, if we are moving towards global governance humanitarian intervention is part of this motion. It is a harbinger of a new global politics, which is all the more reason to consider it scrupulously.

Author : Neil Macfarlane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136051920

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Intervention in Contemporary World Politics by Neil Macfarlane Pdf

Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the differences between them. It contests the notion that there is an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention in international politics, arguing that political interests remain essential to the practice of intervention.

Author : Eric A. Heinze
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791477083

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Waging Humanitarian War by Eric A. Heinze Pdf

How severe must human suffering be before military intervention is considered? Can there be commensurate legal grounding for such an argument? Which actors are the most appropriate agents of intervention? In this reasonable and straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political conditions. Heinze presents the reader with a number of empirical examples, including the 1999 Kosovo intervention, the 2003 Iraq war, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The result is a more theoretically consistent—and therefore more practically workable—approach to humanitarian intervention.

Author : Anna Scheithauer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783668372597

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The Creation of a Precedence in Humanitarian Affairs through the Blend of International Legalization and World Politics by Anna Scheithauer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A (American System), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, language: English, abstract: The research paper sets out to explore the motivations behind Security Council Resolution (SCR) 688 on the internal civilian situation in Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991 embodying the jump-start for the implementation of the today well-known concept of multilateral humanitarian interventions with the international community intervening in a states' domestic affairs on humanitarian grounds. Thereby, the puzzle surrounding the document evolves around the question of its content's legitimacy with view to international law and political implications, figuring a rather grey area which, however, had a tremendous impact on future actions, commitments and reasoning applied by the international community. Thus, the central questions the paper addresses in this regard relate to the debate on the impact of norms as a lock-in mechanism in international treaty law reflecting on how and why at exactly this point in time a new principle respectively doctrine was born. For this purpose the examination of the intertwining of systemic changes in the world system with the international community's moral convictions, political inferences and the forms of legalization chosen will shed a light on the origination, the content and impacts of SCR 688 supporting the creation of a new world order. Thereby, special emphasis has been put on the political reasoning in the Security Council of the United Nations as well as on the three dimensions of legalization: precision, obligation and delegation. The findings have drawn attention to how SCR 688 served as a precedence for all multilateral humanitarian interventions leading to a change in the conception of state sovereignty and the raise of a moral conviction of a “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) by the international community producing long-term effects in international relations. Altogether, the paper has shed light on the complexity of issues at hand leading to a change in conceptual thinking and with it to the ignition of a revolutionary spark for an exception to the rules to becoming a normative principle. At the same time, it has shown that generalizations within the realm of normative changes cannot be inferred from this unique example drawing rather to the aspect of a “ripe moment” in world affairs, with the exception of the blend of world politics and international legalization which seems a plausible set of factors underlying any transformative undertakings embodying the basis for the creation and progression of IL.