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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pattison, James , 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom : Oxford University Press , c2010
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Table of Contents:
  • 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