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Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect - Who Should Intervene? (Hardcover, New)
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Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect - Who Should Intervene? (Hardcover, New)
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This book considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention
in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as
found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more
recently. The doctrine of the responsibility to protect asserts
that when a state is failing to uphold its citizens' human rights,
the international community has a responsibility to protect these
citizens, including by undertaking humanitarian intervention. It is
unclear, however, which particular agent should be tasked with this
responsibility. Should we prefer intervention by the UN, NATO, a
regional or subregional organization (such as the African Union), a
state, a group of states, or someone else? Humanitarian
Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect answers this
question by, first, determining which qualities of interveners are
morally significant and, second, assessing the relative importance
of these qualities. For instance, is it important that an
intervener have a humanitarian motive? Should an intervener be
welcomed by those it is trying to save? How important is it that an
intervener will be effective and what does this mean in practice?
James Pattison then considers the more empirical question of
whether (and to what extent) the current interveners actually
possess these qualities, and therefore should intervene. For
instance, how effective can we expect UN action to be in the
future? Is NATO likely to use humanitarian means? Overall, it
develops a particular normative conception of legitimacy for
humanitarian intervention. It uses this conception of legitimacy to
assess not only current interveners, but also the desirability of
potential reforms to the mechanisms and agents of humanitarian
intervention.
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