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Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century / Aiden Warren, Damian Grenfell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474423816
  • 9781474423823
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part I The Evolution of Humanitarian Interventions in a Global Era -- 1 Rethinking Humanitarian-Military Interventions: Violence and Modernity in an Age of Globalisation -- 2 Peace in the Twenty-First Century: States, Capital and Institutions -- 3 The Evolution of Economic Interventions and the Violence of International Accountability over the longue durée -- 4 Changing Patterns of Social Connection across Interventions: Unravelling Aberrant Globalisation -- Part II The Limits of Sovereignty and the Ethics of Interventions -- 5 A Framework for Reimagining Order and Justice: Transitions in Violence and Interventions in a Global Era -- 6 Humanitarian Intervention? Responding Ethically to Globalising Violence in the Age of Mediated Violence -- 7 ‘Manifestly Failing’ and ‘Unwilling or Unable’ as Intervention Formulas: A Critical Assessment -- 8 Interventions and the Limits of the Responsibility to Protect: Regional Organisations and the Global South -- 9 Regulating the Abstraction of Violence: Interventions and the Deployment of New Technologies Globally -- Part III The Politics of Post-intervention (Re-)Building and Humanitarian Engagement -- 10 (Re-)Building the World: Local Agency and Human Security in the New Millennium -- 11 Who Rebuilds? Local Roles in Rebuilding Shattered Societies -- 12 Transforming the Discourse of Civil-Military Interaction in Humanitarian Environments -- Index
Summary: Examines the complex ethics and politics of humanitarian interventionSince the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have transitioned through a range of stages. These 13 essays focus on the challenges associated with interventions, conflict and attendant human rights violations, unmitigated and systematic violence, state re-building, and issues associated with human mobility and dislocation. Each chapter is linked to the rest through three defining themes that permeate the book: the evolution of humanitarian interventions in a global era; the limits of sovereignty and the ethics of interventions; and the politics of post-intervention: (re)-building and humanitarian engagement.Key FeaturesIncorporates case studies including Kosovo, Timor-Leste, Syria, Libya and IraqExamines the complex issues of the morality and legality of international interventions; non-military interventions (sanctions and aid); humanitarian intervention and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part I The Evolution of Humanitarian Interventions in a Global Era -- 1 Rethinking Humanitarian-Military Interventions: Violence and Modernity in an Age of Globalisation -- 2 Peace in the Twenty-First Century: States, Capital and Institutions -- 3 The Evolution of Economic Interventions and the Violence of International Accountability over the longue durée -- 4 Changing Patterns of Social Connection across Interventions: Unravelling Aberrant Globalisation -- Part II The Limits of Sovereignty and the Ethics of Interventions -- 5 A Framework for Reimagining Order and Justice: Transitions in Violence and Interventions in a Global Era -- 6 Humanitarian Intervention? Responding Ethically to Globalising Violence in the Age of Mediated Violence -- 7 ‘Manifestly Failing’ and ‘Unwilling or Unable’ as Intervention Formulas: A Critical Assessment -- 8 Interventions and the Limits of the Responsibility to Protect: Regional Organisations and the Global South -- 9 Regulating the Abstraction of Violence: Interventions and the Deployment of New Technologies Globally -- Part III The Politics of Post-intervention (Re-)Building and Humanitarian Engagement -- 10 (Re-)Building the World: Local Agency and Human Security in the New Millennium -- 11 Who Rebuilds? Local Roles in Rebuilding Shattered Societies -- 12 Transforming the Discourse of Civil-Military Interaction in Humanitarian Environments -- Index

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Examines the complex ethics and politics of humanitarian interventionSince the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have transitioned through a range of stages. These 13 essays focus on the challenges associated with interventions, conflict and attendant human rights violations, unmitigated and systematic violence, state re-building, and issues associated with human mobility and dislocation. Each chapter is linked to the rest through three defining themes that permeate the book: the evolution of humanitarian interventions in a global era; the limits of sovereignty and the ethics of interventions; and the politics of post-intervention: (re)-building and humanitarian engagement.Key FeaturesIncorporates case studies including Kosovo, Timor-Leste, Syria, Libya and IraqExamines the complex issues of the morality and legality of international interventions; non-military interventions (sanctions and aid); humanitarian intervention and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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In English.

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