Can I read Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century : Setting the Precedent on EtoBox?

Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century : Setting the Precedent by Heraclides, Alexis (author);Dialla, Ada (author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century : Setting the Precedent about?

This book is an attempt at a comprehensive presentation of the history of humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century, the heyday of this controversial doctrine. It starts with a brief presentation of the present situation and debate. The theoretical first part of the book starts with the genealogy of the idea, namely the quest for the progenitors of the idea in the sixteenth and seventeenth century which is a matter of controversy. Next the nineteenth century ‘civilization-barbarity’ dichotomy is covered and its bearing on humanitarian intervention, with its concomitant Eurocentric/Orientalist gaze towards the Ottomans and other states, concluding with the reaction of the Ottomans (as well as the Chinese and Japanese). Then the pivotal international law dimension is scrutinized, with the arguments of advocates and opponents of humanitarian intervention from the 1830s until the 1930s. The theoretical part of the book concludes with nineteenth century international political theory and intervention (Kant, Hegel, Cobden, Mazzini and especially J.S. Mill). In the practical second part of the book four cases studies of humanitarian intervention are examined in considerable

Who reads Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century : Setting the Precedent?

Author

Heraclides, Alexis (author);Dialla, Ada (author)

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526133823

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Law