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In the Cause of Humanity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 475

In the Cause of Humanity

A major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century.

Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence

Based on previously inaccessible material from international archives, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence examines the relationship between emerging human rights concepts after 1945 and repressive British and French actions against anticolonial movements in Africa.

The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention

A study of the emergence and development of humanitarian intervention from the nineteenth century through to the present day. Drawing from a multitude of disciplines, it investigates the complex and controversial debates over the legitimacy of protecting humanitarian norms and universal human rights by violent as well as non-violent means.

Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780

Interventions in other states on behalf of their populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this really a new practice? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions occurred frequently as far back as the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

A Century of Anarchy?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

A Century of Anarchy?

  • Categories: Law

The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the 'free right to go to war' (liberum ius ad bellum) was gradually outlawed. Better times dawned as this anarchy of waging war ended, resulting in radical transformations of international law and politics. However, as a 'free right to go to war' has never been empirically proven, this story of progress is puzzling. In A Century of Anarchy?: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, Hendrik Si...

Humanitarianism and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Humanitarianism and Human Rights

Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.

Night on Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 485

Night on Earth

Reveals how international 'relief' and 'development' became intertwined in humanitarian programs in the Near East from 1918 to 1930.

The Problems of Genocide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 611

The Problems of Genocide

Historically delineates the problems of genocide as a concept in relation to rival categories of mass violence.

Anti-liberal Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Anti-liberal Europe

The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however, were based on an idea of community rooted in pre-modern religious ideas, cultural or ethnic homogeneity, or even in coercion and violence. They frequently rejected the idea of modernity or reinterpreted it in an antiliberal manner. Anti-liberal Europe examines these visions, including those of anti-modernist Catholics, conservatives, extreme rightists as well as communists, arguing that antiliberal concepts in 20th-century Europe were not the counterpart to, but instead part of the process of European integration.

Preparing for War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Preparing for War

  • Categories: Law

This engrossing documentary gives us an in-depth look at the culture and values of America in the years immediately preceding our entry into World War II.