The political economy of human rights enforcement / Ivan Manokha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manokha, Ivan.

Series:

Global ethics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention.

Physical Description:

ix, 280 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

In academic and non-academic debates the practice of human rights enforcement is usually reduced to the intentions, interests and capabilities of agents - particularly the United States and other Western states. Whether seen as a policy adopted to promote national interests or an imperialist device used by the West, the practice of human rights enforcement is discussed in isolation from the structure of the late-modern global political economy. This book develops a structural approach to post-Cold War military humanitarianism and demonstrates the nature of reciprocal causal relations between the global capitalist economy and the practice of human rights enforcement. It provides an historical analysis of the notion of individual rights and its relationship with capitalism and demonstrates that today the actors engaged in human rights enforcement - whether for selfish or humanitarian reasons - unintentionally provide global capital with a Gramscian quality of moral leadership, thereby contributing to its hegemony.

Contents:

1 Human-rights enforcement in the post-Cold War years 1

What is problematic about human-rights enforcement? 4

The existing literature 8

The political economy approach 14

The structure of the argument 18

1 The Existing Analyses of Human Rights Enforcement: a Critical Review 25

1 Humanitarian intervention 27

Strategies and techniques 28

National interests 32

Sovereignty and law 34

Radical critiques 46

2 The War on Terror 51

Strategies and techniques 53

National interests 55

Legal approaches 58

Just-war theory 61

Radical critiques 64

Human rights 66

2 Ideology and the History of Human Rights Enforcement 72

1 Feudalism, the ideology of divine right and just war 75

2 Capitalism and the ideology of individual rights 83

3 Ideology and humanitarianism in the pre-Charter period 93

4 Ideology and humanitarian intervention in the post-Charter period 104

3 Globalization and the Development of a New Form of Global Hegemony 121

1 Globalization 124

Economic transformations 127

Political transformations 136

The development of global governance 142

Globalization as de-territorialization and de-historicization 152

2 Global hegemony 163

4 Human Rights Enforcement and the Moral and Intellectual Leadership of Hegemony 173

1 Moral leadership and human-rights enforcement 176

Operation Provide Comfort 180

Operation Restore Hope 183

Humanitarian force in Bosnia-Herzegovina 187

Operation Restore Democracy, Haiti 191

Humanitarian intervention in East Timor 193

ECOWAS intervention in Liberia 196

ECOWAS intervention in Sierra Leone 198

NATO's Operation Allied Force in Kosovo 201

The War on Terror: Military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq 207

Haiti and Bosnia: post-intervention economic reforms 213

2 Intellectual leadership and human-rights enforcement 221

Conclusion: A Noble Practice in an Ignoble Context: Unintended Consequences of Human Rights Enforcement for the Late-modern world 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-275) and index.

ISBN:

9780230550728

023055072X

OCLC:

214306173