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Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (From the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies by Stanley Hoffmann; with contributions by Robert C. Johansen, James P. Sterba, and Raimo Väyrynen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In 1995, the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, hosted the first of the Theodore M. Hesburgh Lectures on Ethics and Public Policy. At this inaugural gathering renowned author and scholar Stanely Hoffmann delivered two lectures on the problems of humanitarian intervention in international relations. This timely volume presents Hoffmann’s lectures to a wider audience, together with responses made at the conference by Robert C. Johansen an James Sterba, and an introductory essay contributed by Raimo Varynen, director of the Kroc Institute. In his first and premiere lecture, Hoffman attacks from a theoretical perspective the political, legal, and moral problems of outside intervention in the affairs of a state. He analyzes the traditional principle, i.e., economic and environmental interdependence, human rights concerns, nuclear proliferation, and the growing international consciousness of the widespread dangers of domestic chaos. As a matter of practical ethics in the “real world,” Hoffman proposes norms and guidelines for controlled, impartial, collective intervention and the enforcement which must accompany it. In his second illustrative lecture, Hoffman delivers a stinging i

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Author
Stanley Hoffmann; with contributions by Robert C. Johansen, James P. Sterba, and Raimo Väyrynen
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9780268009359
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Law, Political Science

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