Human Rights and Military Intervention
By: Alexander Moseley
Contributors: Norman, Richard
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781315187075; 9781351739016; 9781351738996
Subjects: Human rights; Humanitarian intervention; Moral and ethical aspects; Sovereignty; Droits de l'homme (Droit international); Droit d'ingérence humanitaire; Aspect moral; Souveraineté
Description: "This title was first published in 2002. Was the bombing of Belgrade morally justified as an attempt to halt 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo'? Should Western states have tried to prevent the slaughter in Rwanda? Are there, indeed, genuinely universal 'human rights' which could justify such interventions, or is the upholding of such rights simply the imposition of culturally specific values on other cultures? Is national sovereignty a necessary and legitimate impediment to intervention, or are we seeing the emergence of a 'new international order' in which national boundaries are less significant? These and related ethical and political questions are addressed from a wide variety of perspectives by the contributors to this book. The answers presented form important reading for students and researchers in philosophy and in international relations, and for anyone interested in the difficult questions about whether and when other states may intervene in a country's internal affairs in order to uphold human rights."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, Part I Human Rights --; title: chapter 1 Introduction --; title: chapter 1 Grounding Human Rights: What Difference Does It Make?  -- Gideon Calder; title: chapter 2 Theorizing International Rights: Two Perspectives Considered  -- Donal O'Reardon; title: chapter 3 Universalism and Cultural Specificity: Female Circumcision, Intrinsic Dignity and Human Rights --; title: part, Part II The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention --; title: chapter 4 Violent Humanitarianism -- An Oxymoron? --; title: chapter 5 Humanitarian Intervention and the Logic of War --; title: part, Part III Problems of Selectivity and Consistency --; title: chapter 6 Genocide, Consistency and War --; title: chapter 7 Selectivity, Imperfect Obligations and the Character of Humanitarian Morality --; title: part, Part IV National Sovereignty and the Legitimacy of Intervention --; title: chapter 8 Humanitarian Intervention and International Political Theory --; title: chapter 9 On the Justifiability of Military Intervention: The Kosovan Case --; title: chapter 10 Intervention and Collective Justice in the Post-Westphalian System --; title: chapter 11 Repression, Secession and Intervention --; title: part, Part V The New International Order --; title: chapter 12 Global Village, Global Polis --; title: chapter 13 A Non-Liberal Approach to the Concept of an 'International Order' --; title: part, Part VI Wider Values --; title: chapter 14 Stretching Humanitarianisms: Cultural and Aesthetic Values and Military Intervention.