Justifying violence : communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo / Naomi Head.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Head, Naomi, author.

Contributor:

Manchester University Press, contributor.

Series:

New Approaches to Conflict Analysis.

New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention--Kosovo (Republic).

Humanitarian intervention.

Communication in international relations.

Operation Allied Force, 1999--Moral and ethical aspects.

Operation Allied Force, 1999.

Just war doctrine.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach to an interrogation of the communicative practices which underpin claims to legitimacy for the use of force by actors in international politics. Drawing on the theory of communicative ethics, the book develops an innovative conceptual framework which contributes a critical communicative dimension to the question of legitimacy that extends beyond the moral and legal approaches so often applied to the intervention in Kosovo. The empirical application of communicative ethics offers a provocative and nuanced account which contests conventional interpretations of the legitimacy of NATO's intervention.

Contents:

Justifying Violence: Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo

Half Title Page

New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

Title Page

Copyright

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY

Introduction

I. READING KOSOVO: LEGITIMACY AND JUSTIFICATION

1. Locating Kosovo and legitimacy

2. Putting out the fire while the coals still burn: Kosovo prior to 1999

3. Communicative action in International Relations

II. COMMUNICATIVE ETHICS AND THE USE OF FORCE

4. The Habermasian project: dialogue as normative grounds and object of critique

5. The communicative imperatives

6. Applying the communicative imperatives: debating Kosovo

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-5261-3023-8