Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780199384877
Subjects: Intervention (international law); National security; International relations
Description: "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"--