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Humanitarian intervention : a history /
"The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the interna...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Towards a history of humanitarian intervention; Part I: Early modern precedents; 2 'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people': interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early modern Europe; 3 The Protestant interest and the history of humanitarian intervention, c. 1685-c. 1756; 4 'A false principle in the Law of Nations': Burke, state sovereignty, [German] liberty, and intervention in the Age of Westphalia; Part II: The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire.
- 5 'From an umpire to a competitor': Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars6 Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840-1878; 7 The 'principles of humanity' and the European powers intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria in 1860-1861; 8 The guarantees of humanity: the Concert of Europe and the origins of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877; 9 The European powers' intervention in Macedonia, 1903-1908: an instance of humanitarian intervention?; Part III: Intervening in Africa.
- 10 The price of legitimacy in humanitarian intervention: Britain, the right of search, and the abolition of the West African slave trade, 1807-186711 British anti-slave trade and anti-slavery policy in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey in the late nineteenth century; 12 The origins of humanitarian intervention in Sudan: Anglo-American missionaries after 1899; Part IV: Non-European states; 13 Humanitarian intervention, democracy, and imperialism: the American war with Spain, 1898, and after; 14 The innovation of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.
- 15 Fraternal aid, self-defence, or self-interest? Vietnams intervention in Cambodia, 1978-1989Part V: Postscript; 16 Humanitarian intervention since 1990 and 'liberal interventionism'; 17 Conclusion: Humanitarian intervention in historical perspective; Index.