Human rights and military intervention / edited by Alexander Moseley and Richard Norman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moseley, Alexander, 1943-

Norman, Richard (Richard J.)

Society for Applied Philosophy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects.

Humanitarian intervention.

Sovereignty.

Physical Description:

xi, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2002]

Contents:

Part I Human Rights

1 Grounding Human Rights: What Difference Does It Make? / Gideon Calder 15

2 Theorizing International Rights: Two Perspectives Considered / Donal O'Reardon 34

3 Universalism and Cultural Specificity: Female Circumcision, Intrinsic Dignity and Human Rights / Maria Michela Marzano 50

Part II The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention

4 Violent Humanitarianism - An Oxymoron? / Nigel Dower 73

5 Humanitarian Intervention and the Logic of War / Paul Robinson 95

Part III Problems of Selectivity and Consistency

6 Genocide, Consistency and War / Stephen R.L. Clark 113

7 Selectivity, Imperfect Obligations and the Character of Humanitarian Morality / Mark Evans 132

Part IV National Sovereignty and the Legitimacy of Intervention

8 Humanitarian Intervention and International Political Theory / Chris Brown 153

9 On the Justifiability of Military Intervention: The Kosovan Case / Brendan Howe 170

10 Intervention and Collective Justice in the Post-Westphalian System / Jamie Munn 185

11 Repression, Secession and Intervention / Paul Gilbert 211

Part V The New International Order

12 Global Village, Global Polis / Iain Brassington 231

13 A Non-Liberal Approach to the Concept of an 'International Order' / Philip Ross 247

Part VI Wider Values

14 Stretching Humanitarianisms: Cultural and Aesthetic Values and Military Intervention / Alexander Moseley, Heather Eisenhut 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754608670

OCLC:

49225838