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Fighting for Rights - From Holy Wars to Humanitarian Military Interventions (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Fighting for Rights - From Holy Wars to Humanitarian Military Interventions (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ethics and Global Politics
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In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to
understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights?
How did rights, be they divine rights in the Middle Ages,
territorial rights in the eighteenth century, or human rights
today, become something that people are willing to fight and die
for? To answer these questions, this book explores the linkage
between concepts of rights and the practice of war in the
international arena. Alkopher describes how normative structures of
rights have shaped different practices of war from medieval to
modern times, through the lens of social constructivism. From the
eleventh to the thirteenth century, concepts of divine rights and
institutionalized practices of the Crusades to the Holy Land
fostered the prevailing ideas of international rights and war. In
the eighteenth century, the institutionalization of states' rights
and territorial wars shaped international conflict. This view held
until the late twentieth century when the institutionalization of
human rights coupled with the emerging practice of humanitarian
war, particularly NATO's war in Kosovo, engendered new norms of
international conduct. The author concludes that rights have the
power to constitute an international order that will be either
cooperative or conflictual and the choice of outcome is very much
in our hands. This book will be essential reading for international
relations and political science scholars and students but also
philosophers, legal and sociological historians and international
lawyers.
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