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Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention : A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions / Brian D. Lepard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (520 p.) : 6 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271030692
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.584
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Note on Transliteration of Foreign Words and Names -- Part One: The Problem of Humanitarian Intervention and International Law -- 1. The Need for a Fresh Approach -- Part Two: Developing the Foundations of a Fresh Approach -- 2. Identifying Fundamental Ethical Principles in Contemporary International Law and World Religions Relevant to Humanitarian Intervention -- 3. Identifying and Interpreting International Legal Norms Relevant to Humanitarian Intervention -- Part Three: Some Problematic Issues Relating to U.N.-Authorized Humanitarian Intervention -- 4. Human Rights Violations as a "Threat to" or "Breach of" the Peace -- 5. Consent -- 6. Impartiality -- 7. The Use of Force -- 8. Obligations to Intervene or to Support U.N. Humanitarian Intervention -- 9. The Command and Composition of Multinational Forces Engaged in Humanitarian Intervention -- 10. The Security Council's Decision-Making Process -- Part Four: Humanitarian Intervention Not Authorized by the Security Council -- 11. The Legality of Humanitarian Intervention Without Security Council Authorization -- Part Five: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law in the New Millennium -- 12. The Prospects for a Fresh Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of ";unity in diversity."; A special feature of the book, which avoids the charge of ethnocentricity brought against other approaches, is that Lepard shows how passages from the revered texts of seven world religions may be interpreted as supporting these ethical principles. In connecting law with ethics and religion in this way, he takes a major step forward in the effort to formulate a normative basis for international law in our multicultural world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Note on Transliteration of Foreign Words and Names -- Part One: The Problem of Humanitarian Intervention and International Law -- 1. The Need for a Fresh Approach -- Part Two: Developing the Foundations of a Fresh Approach -- 2. Identifying Fundamental Ethical Principles in Contemporary International Law and World Religions Relevant to Humanitarian Intervention -- 3. Identifying and Interpreting International Legal Norms Relevant to Humanitarian Intervention -- Part Three: Some Problematic Issues Relating to U.N.-Authorized Humanitarian Intervention -- 4. Human Rights Violations as a "Threat to" or "Breach of" the Peace -- 5. Consent -- 6. Impartiality -- 7. The Use of Force -- 8. Obligations to Intervene or to Support U.N. Humanitarian Intervention -- 9. The Command and Composition of Multinational Forces Engaged in Humanitarian Intervention -- 10. The Security Council's Decision-Making Process -- Part Four: Humanitarian Intervention Not Authorized by the Security Council -- 11. The Legality of Humanitarian Intervention Without Security Council Authorization -- Part Five: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law in the New Millennium -- 12. The Prospects for a Fresh Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of ";unity in diversity."; A special feature of the book, which avoids the charge of ethnocentricity brought against other approaches, is that Lepard shows how passages from the revered texts of seven world religions may be interpreted as supporting these ethical principles. In connecting law with ethics and religion in this way, he takes a major step forward in the effort to formulate a normative basis for international law in our multicultural world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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