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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 |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Towards a history of humanitarian intervention / D.J.B. Trim and Brendan Simms
- Part I. Early-Modern Precedents: 2. 'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people': interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early-modern Europe / D.J.B. Trim; 3. The Protestant interest and the history of humanitarian intervention, c.1685-c.1756 / Andrew Thompson; 4. 'A false principle in the Law of Nations': Burke, state sovereignty, [German] liberty, and intervention in the Age of Westphalia / Brendan Simms
- 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 Wars / John Bew; 6. Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840-1878 / Abigail Green; 7. The 'principles of humanity' and the European powers' intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria in 1860-61 / Davide Rodogno; 8. The guarantees of humanity: the Concert of Europe and the origins of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 / Matthias Schulz; 9. The European powers' intervention in Macedonia, 1903-1908: an instance of humanitarian intervention? / Davide Rodogno
- 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, 1807-1867 / Maeve Ryan; 11. British anti-slave trade and anti-slavery policy in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey in the late nineteenth century / William Mulligan; 12. The origins of humanitarian intervention in Sudan: Anglo-American missionaries after 1899 / Gideon Mailer
- Part IV. Non-European States: 13. Humanitarian intervention, democracy, and imperialism: the American war with Spain, 1898, and after / Mike Sewell; 14. The innovation of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment / Thomas Probert; 15. Fraternal aid, self-defence, or self-interest?: Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia 1978-1989 / Sophie Quinn-Judge
- Part V. Postscript: 16. Humanitarian intervention since 1990 and 'liberal interventionism' / Matthew Jamison; 17. Conclusion: humanitarian intervention in historical perspective / D.J.B. Trim.