Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars : Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falk, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects.

Humanitarian intervention.

Humanitarian intervention--Political aspects.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Local Subjects:

Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects.

Humanitarian intervention--Political aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

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Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Toward a new realism; Part I Law, politics and morality; 1 Sovereignty revisited; 2 The Goldstone Report and the Goldstone retreat: Geopolitics trumps law; 3 Toward a jurisprudence of conscience; 4 On humanitarian intervention: A world order dilemma; 5 Civil society perspectives on humanitarian intervention; Part II Trial and error; 6 The tenth anniversary of the Iraq War; 7 The Tet Offensive in the rear view mirror of the Afghanistan War: When ''defeat'' is ''victory''

8 Rethinking the Afghan intervention9 Will we ever learn? Kicking the intervention habit; 10 Violently obstructing Freedom Flotilla II; 11 The Kosovo Advisory Opinion: Conflict resolution and precedent; 12 Why international law matters in the Palestinian struggle; Part III Sovereignty, self-determination, and the responsibility to protect; 13 Dilemmas of sovereignty and intervention; 14 What can be done about Syria? Tragedy and impotence; 15 On Syria: What to do in 2013?; 16 Interventionary motives, NSA surveillance, and Edward Snowden; Part IV Looking to the future

17 Toward a global imaginary for the 21st century18 Nonviolent geopolitics: Rationality and resistance; 19 Declining militarism and rising prospects for soft power geopolitics; 20 Globalization-from-below: An innovative politics of resistance; 21 The legitimacy war template: Palestine and BDS; 22 Appropriating normative geopolitics: Civil society and international law; Index

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Other Format:

Print version: Falk, Richard Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars : Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century

ISBN:

9781317644392

1317644395

OCLC:

889674645

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