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Author Moseley, Alexander

Title Human Rights and Military Intervention
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; The Historical Record; The Ethical Questions; Notes; PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS; 1 Grounding Human Rights: What Difference Does It Make?; A False Antithesis; The Need for a Grounding; The Scope for a Grounding; Notes; 2 Theorizing International Rights: Two Perspectives Considered; Introduction; A Kantian Approach to International Rights: John Rawls; A Contextualist Approach to International Rights: Charles Taylor; The Rwandan Genocide as a Failure of International Rights; Conclusions; Notes
3 Universalism and Cultural Specificity: Female Circumcision, Intrinsic Dignity and Human RightsClitoridectomy and Female Circumcision: Judging Other Cultures; Human Rights and Dignity; Clitoridectomy, Harm, and Personal Autonomy; Where To Draw the Line; Notes; PART II: THE ETHICS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION; 4 Violent Humanitarianism -- An Oxymoron?; Introduction; The Logic of Humanitarianism; Humanitarian Violence: Some Conceptual Mapping; Normative International Relations Theories; (a) Sceptical Realism; (b) Internationalism; (c) Dilemmas Within Just War Theory; (d) Cosmopolitanism
(I) Utilitarianism(ii) Kantianism; (iii) Human Rights; Strict Duties?; (a) 'The means are the ends in the making'; (b) Strict Duty to Intervene?; Consistency and the Wider Picture; (a) Consistency; (b) The Wider Context; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Humanitarian Intervention and the Logic of War; Notes; PART III: PROBLEMS OF SELECTIVITY AND CONSISTENCY; 6 Genocide, Consistency and War; The Serbian War; Ethical Inconsistencies; Crimes and the Global Court; The Dream of Europe; Notes; 7 Selectivity, Imperfect Obligations and the Character of Humanitarian Morality; The Question of Selectivity
The Concept of Humanitarian MoralitySelectivity in the Demands of Humanitarian Morality; Human Rights and Imperfect Obligations; Making Imperfect Obligations Perfect: Towards a Restructuring of the Global Order; Notes; PART IV: NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND THE LEGITIMACY OF INTERVENTION; 8 Humanitarian Intervention and International Political Theory; Humanitarian Intervention and the Westphalia System; The Emergence of a Strong Norm of Non-Intervention; Reflections on Humanitarian Intervention in the 1990s; Notes; 9 On the Justifiability of Military Intervention: The Kosovan Case; Introduction
Walzer, Community and the Legalist ParadigmCommunity and Intervention; The Liberal/Universalist Critique of Communitarianism; Liberal/Universalist Critiques of the Legalist Paradigm; The Value of Rules; Theoretical Fusion; Conclusion; Notes; 10 Intervention and Collective Justice in the Post-Westphalian System; Post-Westphalia and Authority against the Principle of Non-Intervention; Intervention; Self-determination; Walzer's Doctrine of Non-intervention; The Limits of the Ideal of Self-determination; The Hard Cases for Collective Self-determination in a Post-Westphalian System; Conclusion
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Author Norman, Richard
ISBN 9781351739009
135173900X