Human rights, legitimacy, and the use of force / Allen Buchanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchanan, Allen E., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law.

Human rights.

Humanitarian intervention.

International and municipal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The thirteen essays by Allen Buchanan collected here are arranged in such a way as to make evident their thematic interconnections: the important and hitherto unappreciated relationships among the nature and grounding of human rights, the legitimacy of international institutions, and the justification for using military force across borders. Each of these three topics has spawned a significant literature, but unfortunately has been treated in isolation. In this volume Buchanan makes the case for a holistic, systematic approach, and in so doing constitutes a major contribution at the intersecti

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I: Human Rights; 1 Justice, Legitimacy, and Human Rights; 2 Taking the Human Out of Human Rights; 3 Equality and Human Rights; 4 Human Rights and the Legitimacy of the International Order; Part II: Legitimacy; 5 The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions; 6 The Legitimacy of International Law; 7 Democracy and the Commitment to International Law; 8 Constitutional Democracy and the Rule of International Law: Are They Compatible?; Part III: The Use of Force; 9 The Internal Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention; 10 Beyond the National Interest

11 Institutionalizing the Just War12 Justifying Preventive War; 13 From Nuremberg to Kosovo: The Morality of Illegal International Legal Reform; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U

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ISBN:

0-19-988922-8

1-282-36764-1

9786612367649

0-19-974166-2

OCLC:

507428606