Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: Legitimizing the Use of Force Since the 1970s
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 248 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 221-242, index
Series: Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte Im 20. Jahrhundert, 2
ISBN 978-3-8353-3008-5 (pbk); 78-3-8353-4087-9 (pdf)
"The Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the Rwandan genocide and the Darfur conflict served as catalysts for debates which significantly changed the character and institutional frameworks of international politics and international law after the end of the Cold War. Humanitarian emergencies and grave human rights violations came to range among the most powerful arguments to justify military interventions abroad. In the course of these debates international norms and principles as those of sovereignty and the prohibition of the use of force were renegotiated. This volume situates the history of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention within the larger history of the twentieth century by looking at political and cultural shifts that preceded the end of the bipolar world order. At the same time, it seeks to elucidate the specificities of interventionism during the 1990s - a moment when, for the first time, military interventions were being justified on the basis of the protection of human rights. The authors examine the role of a wide range of actors like governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors like NGOs, the media, and public intellectuals." (Publisher description)
Intervening in the Name of Human Rights. On the History of an Argument / Daniel Stahl, Annette Weinke, 9
I. POLITICS OF INTERVENTIONISM
Legitimating Interventions. Humanitarianism and Human Rights / Bronwyn Leebaw, 27
The Language of ingérence. Interventionist Debates in France, 1970s - 1990s / Eleanor Davey, 46
Humanitarian Intervention as Global Governance. Western Governments and Suffering "Others" before and after 1990 / Jan Eckel, 64
II. INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
From the Left Bank to Libya. The New Philosophy and Humanitarianism / Julian Bourg, 89
Culture's Iron Cage. U.S. Anthropology, Human Rights, and the Recalcitrant Defense Intellectual / Robert Albro, 107
III. INTERVENTIONISM AND THE MEDIA
Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica. The Media and the Case for Interventionism / Matthias Nass, 129
From Success to Crisis. Human Rights and the Transformation of the Media since the Late Twentieth Century / Andrea Böhm, 136
Celebrities, Geo-Economics, and Humanitarianism. The Significance of Racialized Hierarchies / Patricia Daley, 146
IV. INTERNATIONAL LAW
Protecting Universal Rights through Intervention. International Law Debates from the 1930s to the 1980s / Fabian Klose, 169
Responsibility to Protect and Tû-Tû Concepts. A Legal-Realist Contribution / Oliver Jütersonke, 185
The Slow Pace of International Law. A Conversation about the Past and Future of Humanitarian Intervention / Gerd Hankel, Claus Kress, Annette Weinke, 202
I. POLITICS OF INTERVENTIONISM
Legitimating Interventions. Humanitarianism and Human Rights / Bronwyn Leebaw, 27
The Language of ingérence. Interventionist Debates in France, 1970s - 1990s / Eleanor Davey, 46
Humanitarian Intervention as Global Governance. Western Governments and Suffering "Others" before and after 1990 / Jan Eckel, 64
II. INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
From the Left Bank to Libya. The New Philosophy and Humanitarianism / Julian Bourg, 89
Culture's Iron Cage. U.S. Anthropology, Human Rights, and the Recalcitrant Defense Intellectual / Robert Albro, 107
III. INTERVENTIONISM AND THE MEDIA
Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica. The Media and the Case for Interventionism / Matthias Nass, 129
From Success to Crisis. Human Rights and the Transformation of the Media since the Late Twentieth Century / Andrea Böhm, 136
Celebrities, Geo-Economics, and Humanitarianism. The Significance of Racialized Hierarchies / Patricia Daley, 146
IV. INTERNATIONAL LAW
Protecting Universal Rights through Intervention. International Law Debates from the 1930s to the 1980s / Fabian Klose, 169
Responsibility to Protect and Tû-Tû Concepts. A Legal-Realist Contribution / Oliver Jütersonke, 185
The Slow Pace of International Law. A Conversation about the Past and Future of Humanitarian Intervention / Gerd Hankel, Claus Kress, Annette Weinke, 202
