Waging humanitarian war
Subtitle: the ethics, law, and politics of humanitarian intervention
By: Eric A. Heinze.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780791476956
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention
Description: "In this 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. The result is a more theoretically consistent - and therefore more practically workable - approach to humanitarian intervention."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the concept of humanitarian intervention; title: The morality of intervention in international theory; title: The consequentialist ethics of humanitarian intervention; title: Humanitarian intervention in international law; title: Universal jurisdiction as normative legal grounding; title: Who intervenes and why it matters : the politics of agency; title: Conclusion.