ISBN : 9780190692186
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention rejects, on political, legal, ethical, and strategic grounds, the widespread claim that military force can be used effectively-and on the basis of a universal consensus-to stop mass atrocities. As such, it is an against-the-current treatment of an important practice in world politics.
Introduction; Chapter 1: The Animating Idea; Chapter 2: Altruism's Limits; Chapter 3: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Intervention; Chapter 4: The Legal Debate; Chapter 5: Human Rights and Intervention; Chapter 5: The Primacy of Pragmatism; Chapter 7: War and Post-War; Chapter 8: The International Community; Conclusion