Saving Strangers

Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925310-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

"Saving Strangers" examines the extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in international society. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods.

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 case

Introduction; Humanitarian Intervention and International Society; India as Rescuer? Order versus Justice in the Bangladesh War of 1971; Vietnam's Intervention in Cambodia: The triumph of realism over common humanity?; Good or bad precedent? Tanzania's Intervention in Uganda; A Solidarist Movement in International Society? The case of Safe Havens and 'No-Fly' Zones in Iraq; From Famine Relief to 'Humanitarian War'; the US and UN Intervention in Somalia; Global Bystanders to Genocide: International Society and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994; The Limit of Humanitarian Intervention from the Air: the cases of Bosnia and Kosovo; A New Solidarity? Humanitarian Intervention and the Future of International Society

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wheeler, Nicholas J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht

Über Autor(innen)

(Senior Lecturer, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)