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Saving strangers : humanitarian intervention in international society / by Wheeler, Nicholas J.(CARDINAL)820489;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index"The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods. Crucially, the book examines how far international society has recognised humanitarian intervention as a legitimate exception to the rules of sovereignty and non-intervention and non-use of force. Each chapter tells a story of intervention that weaves together a study of motives, justifications, and outcomes. The legitimacy of humanitarian intervention is contested by the 'pluralist' and 'solidarist' wings of the English school, and the book charts the stamp of these conceptions on state practice. Solidarism lacks a full-blown theory of humanitarian intervention and the book supplies one. A key focus is to examine how is humanitarian intervention legitimate in present diplomatic dialogues. In exploring how far there has been a change of norm in the society of states in the 1990s, the book defends the broad based constructivist claim that state actions will be constrained if they cannot be legitimated, and that new norms enable new practices but do not determine these. The book concludes by considering how far contemporary practices of humanitarian intervention support a new solidarism, and how far this resolves the traditional conflict between order and justice in international society."--JacketPart one : theories of humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention and international society -- Part two : humanitarian intervention during the Cold War. India as rescuer? Order versus justice in the Bangladesh war of 1971 -- Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia : the triumph of realism over common humanity? -- Good or bad precedent? Tanzania's intervention in Uganda -- Part three : humanitarian intervention after the Cold War. A solidarist moment in international society? The case of safe havens and no-fly zones in Iraq -- From famine relief to 'humanitarian war' : the US and UN intervention in Somalia -- Global bystander to genocide : international society and the Rwandan genocide of 1994 -- The limits of humanitarian intervention from the air : the cases of Bosnia and Kosovo
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention.;
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The thin blue line : how humanitarianism went to war / by Foley, Conor.(CARDINAL)368379;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
Subjects: Humanitarian assistance; Humanitarian intervention.;
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Freedom's battle : the origins of humanitarian intervention / by Bass, Gary Jonathan,1969-(CARDINAL)703372;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-481) and index.Introduction -- Humanitarianism or imperialism? -- Media and solidarity -- The diplomacy of humanitarian intervention -- Greeks -- The Greek revolution -- The Scio massacre -- The London Greek committee -- America and the Greeks -- Lord Byron's war -- Canning -- The Holy alliance -- A rumor of slaughter -- Navarino -- Syrians -- France under the second empire -- The massacres -- Public opinion -- Occupying Syria -- Mission creep -- Bulgarians -- The Eastern question -- Pan-slavism -- Bosnia and Serbia -- Bulgarian horrors -- The Russo-Turkish war -- The Midlothian campaign -- Conclusion -- Armenians -- The uses of history -- The international politics of humanitarian intervention -- The domestic politics of humanitarian intervention -- A new imperialism?.Gary Bass shatters the myth that the history of humanitarian intervention began with Bill Clinton, or even Woodrow Wilson, and shows, instead, that there is a tangled international tradition, reaching back more than two hundred years, of confronting the suffering of innocent foreigners. Bass describes the political and cultural landscapes out of which these activists arose, as an emergent free press exposed Europeans and Americans to atrocities taking place beyond their shores and galvanized them to act.He brings alive a century of passionate advocacy in Britain, France, Russia, and the United States: the fight the British waged against the oppression of the Greeks in the 1820s, the huge uproar against a notorious massacre in Bulgaria in the 1870s, and the American campaign to stop the Armenian genocide in 1915. He tells the gripping stories of the activists themselves: Byron, Bentham, Madison, Gladstone, Dostoevsky, and Theodore Roosevelt among them. Bass also demonstrates that even in the imperialistic heyday of the nineteenth century, humanitarian ideals could play a significant role in shaping world politics. He argues that the failure of today's leading democracies to shoulder such responsibilities has led to catastrophes such as those in Rwanda and Darfur--catastrophes that he maintains are neither inevitable nor traditional.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Case studies.; Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian intervention;
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Humanitarian imperialism : using human rights to sell war / by Bricmont, J.(Jean)(CARDINAL)641847;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index.
Subjects: Human rights.; Humanitarian intervention.; Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian intervention; Intervention (International law); War; Human rights.;
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Beyond borders [videorecording] / by Beauman, Nicholas.; Campbell, Martin.(CARDINAL)537167; Emmerich, Noah.(CARDINAL)344057; Halsted, Dan.; Horner, James.(CARDINAL)731423; Houston, Kent.; Jolie, Angelina,1975-(CARDINAL)535081; Kroeger, Wolf.; Meheux, Phil,1941-; Moriceau, Norma.; Owen, Clive.(CARDINAL)349521; Paré, Claude.; Phillips, Lloyd,1949-2013.; Polo, Teri,1969-; Roache, Linus,1964-; Tredwell-Owen, Caspian.; Wageningen, Yorick van,1964-; Camelot Pictures (Firm); Mandalay Pictures.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
Director of photography, Phil Meheux ; art director, Claude Pare ; editor, Nicholas Beauman ; music composer, James Horner ; costume designer, Norma Moriceau ; production designer, Wolf Kroeger ; visual effects, Kent Houston.Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Yorick van Wageninger, Noah Emmerich.While attending a fundraising gala, Sarah witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder - a renegade humanitarian, Dr. Nick Callahan. His pleas made on behalf of impoverished African children turns Sarah's life upside down. Sarah impulsively abandons her pampered life to work along his side. Her work takes her to volatile areas, where few have travelled to and even fewer have survived. She discovers harsh realities and encounters and ignites in her a passion for saving lives.MPAA rating: R; for language and war-related violence.DVD, Region 1; Dolby Digital surround, DTS.
Subjects: Melodrama.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Humanitarian intervention; Man-woman relationships; Poor; Survival;
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Beyond borders [videorecording] / by Beauman, Nicholas.; Campbell, Martin.(CARDINAL)537167; Emmerich, Noah.(CARDINAL)344057; Halsted, Dan.; Horner, James.(CARDINAL)731423; Houston, Kent.; Jolie, Angelina,1975-(CARDINAL)535081; Kroeger, Wolf.; Meheux, Phil,1941-; Moriceau, Norma.; Owen, Clive.(CARDINAL)349521; Paré, Claude.; Phillips, Lloyd,1949-2013.; Polo, Teri,1969-; Roache, Linus,1964-; Tredwell-Owen, Caspian.; Wageningen, Yorick van,1964-; Camelot Pictures (Firm); Mandalay Pictures.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
Director of photography, Phil Meheux ; art director, Claude Paré ; editor, Nicholas Beauman ; music composer, James Horner ; costume designer, Norma Moriceau ; production designer, Wolf Kroeger ; visual effects, Kent Houston.Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Yorick van Wageningen, Noah Emmerich.While attending a fundraising gala, Sarah witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder - a renegade humanitarian, Dr. Nick Callahan. His pleas made on behalf of impoverished African children turns Sarah's life upside down. Sarah impulsively abandons her pampered life to work along his side. Her work takes her to volatile areas, where few have travelled to and even fewer have survived. She discovers harsh realities and encounters and ignites in her a passion for saving lives.MPAA rating: R; for language and war-related violence.DVD, Region 1; Dolby Digital surround, widescreen. NTSC.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Humanitarian intervention; Man-woman relationships; Poor; Survival;
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Armed humanitarians : the rise of the nation builders / by Hodge, Nathan.(CARDINAL)489856;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Absolute beginners - The PowerPoint warrior -- "Beat 'em up and go home" -- The other war -- Cash as a weapon -- The phoenix rises -- The accidental counterinsurgents -- Wingtips on the ground -- Kalashnikovs for hire -- Peace Corps on steroids -- Windshield ethnographers -- Obama's war -- Conclusion: Foreign policy out of balance.
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention; Nation-building;
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Three cups of deceit : how Greg Mortenson, humanitarian hero, lost his way / by Krakauer, Jon.(CARDINAL)781145;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-75).Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools, or his abduction by the Taliban.
Subjects: Mortenson, Greg.; Central Asia Institute.; Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian intervention; Girls' schools; Girls' schools; Humanitarian assistance, American; Humanitarian assistance, American; Philanthropists.; Girls; Girls; Girls.;
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Humanitarian relief operations : lending a helping hand / by Smith, Roger,1959 August 15-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82, 84) and index.The UN charter and the UN's role in humanitarian relief -- Humanitarian assistance programs -- UNICEF -- The United Nations in action.
Subjects: United Nations. Department of Humanitarian Affairs; Humanitarian assistance; Humanitarian intervention; International relief;
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Mission failure : America and the world in the post-Cold War era / by Mandelbaum, Michael.(CARDINAL)138052;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-458) and index.China, the Global Economy, and Russia -- Humanitarian Intervention -- The War on Terror and Afghanistan -- Iraq -- The Middle East -- The Restoration."America's decision in 1991 to provide air defense to oppressed Kurds in Iraq after the Gulf War ushered in an entirely new era in American foreign policy. Until that moment, the United States had only used military power to defend against threats that its leaders thought would either weaken America's position in the world order or--in the worst case--threaten the homeland. But with this offer to the Kurds, the United States for the first time ever was now militarily involved in states that represented no threat, and with missions that were largely humanitarian and socio-political. After establishing the Kurdish no-fly zone, the US in quick succession intervened in Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo. Even after 9/11, it decided that it had a duty to not just invade Iraq, but reconstruct Iraqi society along Western lines. In Mission Failure, the eminent scholar Michael Mandelbaum provides a comprehensive history of post-Cold War American foreign policy to show why this new approach was doomed to failure. Mandelbaum argues that all major foreign policy initiatives, both before and after September 11, 2001, had a basic feature in common: all were missions to transform other countries along Western lines, and all failed. This shift in policy did result in several positive effects, including a broad expansion of democracy and strong growth in the global economy. However, the U.S. had neither the capacity nor the will to change societies that were dramatically different from our own. Over two decades later, we can see the wreckage: a broken Iraq, a teetering Afghanistan, and a still-impoverished Haiti. Mandelbaum does not deny that American foreign policy has always had a strong ideological component. Instead, he argues that focusing solely on ideology at the expense of realism generally leads to mission failure"--
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian intervention; Ideology; Realism;
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