Humanitarian Intervention
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780511921292 |
| Open Library | OL15444977W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2011 - 2011 |
| Language | EN |
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 international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyranny and to religious persecution evolved from notions of the common interests of 'Christendom' to ultimately incorporate all people under the concept of 'human rights'. As well as examining specific episodes of intervention, the authors consider how these have been perceived and justified over time, and offer important new insights into ideas of national sovereignty, international relations and law, as well as political thought and the development of current theories of 'international community'.
The price of legitimacy in humanitarian intervention
It rarely if ever happens that a foreign gov[ernmen]t gives up its selfish interests, its passions or its prejudices to the force of argument or persuasion; and the more such a gov[ernmen]t is in the wrong, the more pig headed it generally is, because its being very much in the wrong is a proof that it is deaf and blind to reason and right. Persuasion seldom succeeds unless there is compulsion of some sort, nearer or further off behind it. Lord P…
British anti-slave trade and anti-slavery policy in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey in the late nineteenth century
There is no feeling so strong in England as the Anti-Slave Trade feeling. Lord Northbrook to Baring, 7 March 1884 Philanthropy decidedly costs money. Goschen to Gladstone, 19 September 1871 The abolition of the slave trade in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey was a lengthy process, the most intense and climactic period occurring in the final third of the nineteenth century. This coincided with the conquest of Africa by European states. Just as the …
Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840–1878
I cannot subscribe to the doctrine that the humanitarian treatment of the Jews in the Principalities is not a subject for foreign interference. The peculiar position of the Jews places them under the protection of the civilised world.J. Green, British Consul-General in Bucharest to Stefan Golescu, Romanian Foreign Minister, 2 August 1867
Humanitarian Intervention
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 international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyrann…
‘If a prince use tyrannie towards his people’
If a prince doe violently breake the bonds of pietie and justice, an other prince may justly and lawfully exceede his owne limittes, not to invade the other's, but to force him to be content with his owne. If a prince use tyrannie towards his people, we ought to ayde no lesse, than if his subjectes shoulde raise sedition against him.A short Apologie for Christian Souldiours (1588)
No prominent publications on this page.
The price of legitimacy in humanitarian intervention
It rarely if ever happens that a foreign gov[ernmen]t gives up its selfish interests, its passions or its prejudices to the force of argument or persuasion; and the more such a gov[ernmen]t is in the wrong, the more pig headed it generally is, because its being very much in the wrong is a proof that it is deaf and blind to reason and right. Persuasion seldom succeeds unless there is compulsion of some sort, nearer or further off behind it. Lord P…
British anti-slave trade and anti-slavery policy in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey in the late nineteenth century
There is no feeling so strong in England as the Anti-Slave Trade feeling. Lord Northbrook to Baring, 7 March 1884 Philanthropy decidedly costs money. Goschen to Gladstone, 19 September 1871 The abolition of the slave trade in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey was a lengthy process, the most intense and climactic period occurring in the final third of the nineteenth century. This coincided with the conquest of Africa by European states. Just as the …
Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840–1878
I cannot subscribe to the doctrine that the humanitarian treatment of the Jews in the Principalities is not a subject for foreign interference. The peculiar position of the Jews places them under the protection of the civilised world.J. Green, British Consul-General in Bucharest to Stefan Golescu, Romanian Foreign Minister, 2 August 1867
Humanitarian Intervention
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 international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyrann…
‘If a prince use tyrannie towards his people’
If a prince doe violently breake the bonds of pietie and justice, an other prince may justly and lawfully exceede his owne limittes, not to invade the other's, but to force him to be content with his owne. If a prince use tyrannie towards his people, we ought to ayde no lesse, than if his subjectes shoulde raise sedition against him.A short Apologie for Christian Souldiours (1588)