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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300 |a xiii, 284 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
500 |a Originally published: 2010 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index 
505 0 |a 1. The problem of who should intervene -- 2. Humanitarian intervention and international law -- 3. Effectiveness and the moderate instrumentalist approach -- 4. An intervener's conduct : humanitarian intervention and jus in bello -- 5. Representativeness and humanitarian intervention -- 6. An intervener's humanitarian credentials : motives, intentions and outcomes -- 7. Assessing current interveners -- 8. Reforms to the agents and mechanisms -- 9. Conclusion : realizing legitimate humanitarian intervention 
520 |a 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 
650 0 |a Conflict management 
650 0 |a Humanitarian intervention 
650 0 |a Responsibility to protect (International law) 
650 0 |a Security, International 
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