This major new text by leading experts in the field re-examines the traditional understanding of humanitarian intervention in the wake recent high-profile interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria. Bellamy and McLoughlin use empirical scholarship to broaden the scope of humanitarian intervention beyond the politics of ad hoc armed humanitarian interventions to the emergence of a comprehensive international regime for human protection, in which most measures introduced are preventative and non-coercive. Framing this analysis within an understanding of how mass atrocities are caused and are resolved, the authors offer an innovative, modern understanding of what humanitarian intervention really is.
This text will make a contribution to the literature by attempting to answer how international society responds to mass atrocities, and how it should respond. The text draws on more than a decade of research to present an accessible account of the transformation of humanitarian intervention, key challenges, and how to withstand crises in international politics.Humanitarian intervention continues to be important for those studying contemporary world affairs and politics, and this accessible account will prove essential reading for a broad range of upper undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and for those whose work or research is focused on this area. It cites multiple empirical examples from across the globe, and is written in a clear, jargon-free style.
Key features:
- Offers a new and broad understanding of humanitarian intervention
- Empirically based analysis of humanitarian intervention- Recent case-studies throughout
- Analysis of contemporary trends, issues and debates in humanitarian intervention
- Frames the debate within an understanding of how mass atrocities are caused, and resolved
- ISBN: 978-1-137-48808-4
- Editorial: Palgrave
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 213
- Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2018
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés