ABSTRACT
In the aftermath of the Cold War there has been a dramatic shift in thinking about the maintenance of peace and security on a global level. This shift is away from a preoccupation with how to prevent major wars between sovereign states to a preoccupation about non-state transnational warfare and violence and strife within states in a world order that continues to be juridically and politically delimited by spatial ideas of national sovereignty and national independence as signified by international boundaries.
In this book, Richard Falk draws upon these changes to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century. As well as analysing the theoretical and conceptual basis of the responsibility to protect, the book also contains a number of case studies looking at Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Syria. The final section explores when humanitarian intervention can succeed and the changing nature of international political legitimacy in countries such as India, Tibet, South Africa and Palestine.
This book will be of interest to students of International Relations theory, Peace Studies and Global Politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |67 pages
Law, politics and morality
chapter |4 pages
Sovereignty Revisited
chapter |13 pages
Toward a Jurisprudence of Conscience
chapter |12 pages
Civil Society Perspectives on Humanitarian Intervention
part |55 pages
Trial and error
chapter |4 pages
The Tenth Anniversary of the Iraq War
chapter |6 pages
The Tet Offensive in the Rear View Mirror of the Afghanistan War
chapter |5 pages
Rethinking the Afghan Intervention
chapter |5 pages
Violently Obstructing Freedom Flotilla II
chapter |17 pages
Why International Law Matters in the Palestinian Struggle
part |22 pages
Sovereignty, self-determination, and the responsibility to protect
chapter |5 pages
Dilemmas of Sovereignty and Intervention
chapter |6 pages
Interventionary Motives, NSA Surveillance, and Edward Snowden
part |64 pages
Looking to the future