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Military intervention has emerged as one of the greatest challenges
facing the West. This book explores how the West has reacted to
this challenge. In particular it examines the question of how
military power has and might be used to help protect those
elsewhere who are in danger. It looks at how force is used, the
limits on the use of force, and how monitoring and verification of
ceasefires can be effectively implemented to stop force being used.
It also examines the political context in which force is used,
including the West's intolerance for casualities, the role of the
media and the gender dimensions of intervention.
The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world
politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and
acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique
obligations in managing global problems. Surprisingly, scholars are
yet to provide any in-depth analysis of this fascinating aspect of
world politics. This path-breaking study examines the nature of
special responsibilities, the complex politics that surround them
and how they condition international social power. The argument is
illustrated with detailed case-studies of nuclear proliferation,
climate change and global finance. All three problems have been
addressed by an allocation of special responsibilities, but while
this has structured politics in these areas, it has also been the
subject of ongoing contestation. With a focus on the United States,
this book argues that power must be understood as a social
phenomenon and that American power varies significantly across
security, economic and environmental domains.
The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world
politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and
acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique
obligations in managing global problems. Surprisingly, scholars are
yet to provide any in-depth analysis of this fascinating aspect of
world politics. This path-breaking study examines the nature of
special responsibilities, the complex politics that surround them
and how they condition international social power. The argument is
illustrated with detailed case-studies of nuclear proliferation,
climate change and global finance. All three problems have been
addressed by an allocation of special responsibilities, but while
this has structured politics in these areas, it has also been the
subject of ongoing contestation. With a focus on the United States,
this book argues that power must be understood as a social
phenomenon and that American power varies significantly across
security, economic and environmental domains.
There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal
human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely
volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the
failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights
standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a
fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of
developing rights in the context of particular ethical communities.
In the first part of the book chapters by Ken Booth, Jack Donnelly,
Chris Brown, Bhikhu Parekh and Mary Midgley explore the
philosophical basis of claims to universal human rights. In the
second part, Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Gil Loescher,
Georgina Ashworth and Andrew Hurrell reflect on the role of the
media, global civil society, states, migration, non-governmental
organisations, capitalism, and schools and universities in
developing a global human rights culture.
Why did Britain decide in 1947 to build an atomic bomb? What
military plans were there for using it? This neglected dimension of
British nuclear policy is assessed in detail for the first time,
using confidential records - including those of the Chiefs of Staff
- which have become available for the entire post-war decade. The
emergence and evolution of British strategic ideas about nuclear
deterrence and targeting are documented and analysed by Ian Clark
and Nicholas J. Wheeler, who also argue that British thinking was
distinctive and made a much more substantial impact on nuclear
strategy than American accounts would suggest. They reveal that,
from a perspective unique to British circumstances and traditions,
British officials made a significant contribution to early thinking
about nuclear weapons. This study covers the early shift from a
'countervalue' to a damage limitation targeting posture, the
assessment of the Soviet threat, the impact of the Korean War, the
Global Strategy Paper of 1952, the decision to manufacture a
hydrogen weapon in 1954, and the inter-service rivalries in the
mid-1950s about the nature and size of the British strategic force.
As well as providing a survey of British thinking, it is unusual in
its focus on strategic comparisons between Britain and the United
States.
The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. While there are studies of each individual case of intervention--in East Pakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo--there is no single work that examines them comprehensively in a comparative framework.
There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume brings together leading scholars to evaluate this paradox. The contributors ask whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise. The book evaluates the philosophical basis of human rights, and reflects on the structures that affect the development of a global human rights culture.
Saving Strangers examines the extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in international society. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. Crucially, the book examines how far international society has recognised humanitarian intervention as a legitimate exception to the rules of sovereignty and non-intervention and non-use of force. While there are studies of each case of intervention - in East Pakistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, there is no single work that examines them comprehensively in a comparative framework.
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