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List of Boxes | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary International Relations | |
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The contemporary debate | |
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The end of history | |
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The rise of the 'international community' | |
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Globalization and the communication revolution | |
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Using this book | |
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Concepts and Conceptions | |
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What is 'Humanitarian Intervention'? | |
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'Humanitarian intervention', 'humanitarian action' and 'military action' | |
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Features of humanitarian intervention | |
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The status of the parties involved | |
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The question of consent | |
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The means | |
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The motives | |
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The issue of legality | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Just War Tradition and Natural Law | |
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The central tenets | |
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The evolution of the Just War tradition | |
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Contemporary relevance | |
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Is the tradition universally applicable? | |
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The tradition is inherently statist | |
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Easily abused/who decides? | |
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Does the Just War tradition have any real utility? | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Sovereign State | |
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The evolution of the sovereign state | |
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War, religion and the modern state | |
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Westphalia and the nation-state | |
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The UN Charter | |
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Organized hypocrisy? | |
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Challenging the sovereign state in the contemporary era | |
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The rise of human security and global civil society | |
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Political developments in the 1990s | |
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Defending the sovereign state | |
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Conclusion | |
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Theoretical Perspectives | |
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Realism | |
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Marxism/critical theory | |
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Liberalism | |
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The English School | |
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Cosmopolitanism | |
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Post-structuralism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Controversies | |
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International Law and Human Rights | |
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The evolution of international law | |
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State responsibility | |
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Traditional approaches to state responsibility | |
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State responsibility and the UN Charter | |
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The legal status of humanitarian intervention | |
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Human rights law | |
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'Illegal but legitimate'? | |
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The need for legal reform | |
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The feasibility of reform | |
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Potential legal reform | |
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Political will or legal obstacles? | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Responsibility to Protect | |
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The origins of the responsibility to protect | |
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Key tenets | |
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International reception and evolution | |
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Challenging the responsibility to protect | |
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Prevention | |
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A tool of the powerful | |
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A norm or nebulous? | |
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The emperor's new clothes? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Who Decides? Authority and Legitimacy | |
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Legitimacy, authority, power and rights | |
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Legitimacy | |
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Authority and power | |
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Right or duty? | |
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The UN Security Council | |
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Nature of the Security Council's powers | |
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International perception | |
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A source of order, not justice | |
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Alternative authorities | |
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International morality | |
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Liberal hierarchy thesis | |
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Reform of the Security Council | |
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Conclusion | |
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Motives and Means | |
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Motives | |
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The humanitarian imperative | |
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In defence of interests | |
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'He who invokes humanity wants to cheat' | |
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Means | |
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'Bombing for humanity' | |
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Force protection | |
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'War is hell' | |
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Conclusion | |
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Cases | |
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Humanitarian Intervention in History | |
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Humanitarian intervention: trends and changes | |
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The state and the evolution of humanitarian intervention | |
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Humanitarian intervention in historical context | |
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Conclusion: assessing the record | |
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Rwanda | |
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Nature of the crisis | |
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The evolution of the crisis | |
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Explaining the genocide | |
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International response | |
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International reaction | |
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Could more have been done? | |
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Impact on the debate | |
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Never again! | |
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The need for UN reform | |
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Critiquing intervention | |
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Conclusion | |
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Kosovo | |
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Nature of the crisis | |
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International response | |
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1989-98: distracted superpowers | |
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October 1998-March 1999: diplomatic failure | |
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24 March 1999-10 June 1999: intervention | |
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Impact on the debate | |
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A war fought for values | |
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'The new military humanism' | |
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International law after Kosovo | |
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Force protection and international humanitarian law | |
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Conclusion | |
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Iraq | |
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Nature of the crisis | |
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International response | |
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The Bush doctrine and Iraq | |
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Operation Iraqi Freedom | |
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Lies? | |
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Impact on the debate | |
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The abuse of humanitarian intervention | |
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The rote of international law | |
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The utility of the Just War criteria | |
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Conclusion | |
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Darfur | |
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Nature of the crisis | |
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International response | |
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2003-5 | |
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2005-8 | |
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Impact on the debate | |
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Back to Rwanda? | |
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R2P RIP? | |
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The limits of global civil society? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Libya and the Arab Spring | |
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Nature of the crisis | |
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Libya under Gaddafi | |
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Ash-sha'b yurid isqat an-nizam | |
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International response | |
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The Arab League and the African Union | |
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The Security Council acts | |
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Operation Unified Protector | |
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Impact on the debate | |
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Interests or humanitarianism? | |
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'The Responsibility to Protect has arrived' | |
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Never again? | |
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The viability of prevention | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conclusion: The Future of Humanitarian Intervention? | |
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In defence of the status quo | |
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The need for legal reform | |
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Beyond current international law | |
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Conclusion | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |