Human rights and humanitarian intervention
Subtitle: legitimizing the use of force since the 1970s
By: edited by Norbert Frei, Daniel Stahl, and Annette Weinke
Series: Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert -- Band 2; Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert -- Bd. 2.
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9783835330085
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention; Political aspects; Human rights; International relations; Intervention (International law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intervening in the name of human rights. On the history of an argument  -- Daniel Stahl, Annette Weinke; title: Legitimating interventions. Humanitarianism and human rights  -- Bronwyn Leebaw; title: The language of ingérence. Interventionist debates in France, 1970s-1990s  -- Eleanor Davey; title: Humanitarian intervention as global governance. Western governments and suffereing "others" before and after 1990  -- Jan Eckel; title: From the Left Bank to Libya. The new philosophy and humanitarianism  -- Julian Bourg; title: Culture's iron cage. U. S. anthropology, human rights, and the recalcitrant defense intellectual  -- Robert Albro; title: Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica. The media and the case for interventionism  -- Matthias Nass; title: From success to crisis. Human rights and the transformation of the media since the late twentieth century  -- Andrea Böhm; title: Celebrities, geo-economics, and humanitarianism. The significance of racialized hierarchies  -- Patricia Daley; title: Protecting universal rights through intervention. International law debates from the 1930s to the 1980s  -- Fabian Klose; title: Responsibility to protect and tû-tû concepts. A legal-realist contribution  -- Oliver Jütersonke; title: The slow pace of international law. A conversation about the past and future of humanitarian intervention -- Gerd Hankel, Claus Kress, Annette Weinke.