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 humanitarian intervention. INDICE: 1: The Problem of Who Should Intervene; 2: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law; 3: Effectiveness and the Moderate InstrumentalistApproach; 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 of Humanitarian Intervention; 9: Conclusion: Realizing Legitimate Humanitarian Intervention; References

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956104-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 25/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés