Moral Responsibility, Statecraft and Humanitarian Intervention - The US Response to Rwanda, Darfur, and Libya (Hardcover)

This book explores the moral complexity of statecraft in the context of decision-making on armed intervention in the post-Cold War era. This book adds to the debate on humanitarian intervention by analyzing the moral complexity of statecraft when confronted with situations of severe human rights violations. Through a comparative case study of President Bill Clinton administration's failure to intervene in the Rwanda genocide (1994), the George W. Bush administration's tepid response to the Darfur atrocities (2003-07), and the Barack Obama administration's leadership behind the limited U.N. intervention in Libya (2011), it explores the factors - domestic and international - that influence decision-making about humanitarian intervention. These cases show, not only how international moral concerns often compete with interest-based and domestic concerns, but how decision-makers are often confronted by competing moral imperatives. In such situations, it is often not clear which imperatives should be followed. In an increasingly interconnected world, this book examines how we expect state leaders to balance different moral responsibilities. This book will be of much interest to students of humanitarian intervention, the Responsibility to Protect, human rights, US foreign policy, African politics and IR in general.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Cathinka Vik
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	154
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-88799-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	1-138-88799-4
Barcode:	9781138887992

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