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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Oxford University Press ,
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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