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The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Hardcover)
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The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Hardcover)
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The post-Cold War period has witnessed a substantial increase in
armed humanitarian interventions-the use of military force by one
or more states, acting with or without the imprimatur of the United
Nations, to stop mass atrocities in another state, generally
without its consent and thus without regard to its sovereignty. The
increase has three sources: the emergence of the United States as a
peerless power; Western states' embrace and propagation of
universal human rights norms; and the international human rights
movement's dogged and effective lobbying, using national and
international forums, in support of the project. The campaigns in
Bosnia, Kosovo, and Libya demonstrate the salience humanitarian
intervention has now acquired in world politics. In this new era,
states' sovereign immunity is being reevaluated and intervention
based on universal human rights principles has become common. Rajan
Menon's The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention presents a
trenchant challenge to the conventional wisdom on this policy. He
contends that universalistic principles invoked in support of it
tend to be fig leaves and that armed interventions to stop mass
killing occur on a highly selective basis. The rationales offered
to justify them more often than not derive from national interest
and power politics. States, no matter how powerful, are unwilling
to intervene (or resort to lesser measures) when the costs are
prohibitive, even when killing unfolds on a massive scale, or when
the perpetrators happen to be friends or allies . This short work
will range broadly, moving from the Balkan intervention of the
1990s to the 2011 intervention in Libya. It also assesses the
failed US intervention in Iraq and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan
to highlight the problems-ones relevant to humanitarian wars-that
interventions encounter, and create, in the post-war phase. Menon
is not advocating that we turn a blind eye to mass killing. Rather,
he is asking us to look at the world as it rather than as we wish
it to be, to recognize the extent to which power and national
interest underpin humanitarian intervention, and to face up to the
problems and unintended consequences humanitarian intervention
creates rather than resorting to idealistic cliches that evade
reality or that cloak states' self-interest and cynicism. As the
slaughter in Syria demonstrates, power politics, not human rights
norms, determine whether or not humanitarian intervention takes
place. Despite the magnitude of mass killing in Syria, the United
States and its allies decided to eschew intervention, judging it
far too hazardous. Menon's searching critique of the theory and
practice of armed humanitarian intervention will force us to see
this grand project in a new light.
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