Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect : who should intervene?

This book considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis. It develops a normative account of legitimacy to assess not only current interveners, but also the desirability of potential reforms to the mechanisms and agents of humanita...

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Main Author: Pattison, James , 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom : Oxford University Press , c2010
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Summary:This book considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis. It develops a normative account of legitimacy to assess not only current interveners, but also the desirability of potential reforms to the mechanisms and agents of humanitarian intervention
Item Description:Originally published: 2010
Physical Description:xiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index
ISBN:0199656622
9780199656622