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The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Paperback)
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With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian
interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities.
These wars of rescue, waged in the name of ostensibly universal
norms of human rights and legal principles, rest on the premise
that a genuine "international community" has begun to emerge and
has reached consensus on a procedure for eradicating mass killings.
Rajan Menon argues that, in fact, humanitarian intervention remains
deeply divisive as a concept and as a policy, and is flawed
besides. The advocates of humanitarian intervention have produced a
mountain of writings to support their claim that human rights
precepts now exert an unprecedented influence on states' foreign
policies and that we can therefore anticipate a comprehensive
solution to mass atrocities. In The Conceit of Humanitarian
Intervention, Menon shows that this belief, while noble, is naive.
States continue to act principally based on what they regard at any
given time as their national interests. Delivering strangers from
oppression ranks low on their list of priorities. Indeed, even
democratic states routinely embrace governments that trample the
human rights values on which the humanitarian intervention
enterprise rests. States' ethical commitment to waging war to end
atrocities remains episodic and erratic-more rhetorical than real.
And when these missions are undertaken, the strategies and means
used invariably produce perverse, even dangerous results. This, in
no small measure, stems from the hubris of leaders-and the acolytes
of humanitarian intervention-who have come to believe that they
possesses the wisdom and wherewithal to bestow freedom and
stability upon societies about which they know little.
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