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Humanitarian Intervention
Brendan Simms
David J. B. Trim
其他書名
A History
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2014-05-14
ISBN
1139077856
9781139077859
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H4DOrQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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'.