Richard Falk

Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars

Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9780415815178
• ISBN-10: 0415815177
• Artikelnr.: 37228489

Autorenporträt

Richard Falk is Albert G. Professor of International Law and Practice Emeritus at Princeton University, USA where he was a member of the faculty for 40 years. Since 2002 he has been a Research Professor at the Center Global & International Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara USA. He has been Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine for the UN Human Rights Council since 2008, and served on a panel of experts appointed by the President of the UN General Assembly, 2008-2009

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A NEW REALISM
CHAPTER 1: HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND LEGITIMACY WARS
PART I: LAW
POLITICS AND MORALITY
CHAPTER 2: SOVEREIGNITY REVISITED
CHAPTER 3: THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND THE GOLDSTONE RETREAT
CHAPTER 4: TOWARD A JURISPRUDENCE OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER 5: ON HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: A WORLD ORDER DILEMMA
CHAPTER 6: CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES ON HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
PART II: TRIAL AND ERROR
CHAPTER 7: THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR
CHAPTER 8: THE TET OFFENSIVE IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR OF THE AFGHANISTAN WAR: WHEN 'DEFEAT' IS 'VICTORY'
CHAPTER 9: RETHINKING THE AFGHAN INTERVENTION
CHAPTER 10: WILL WE EVER LEARN? KICKING THE INTERVENTION HABIT
CHAPTER 11: VIOLENTLY OBSTRUCTING FREEDOM FLOTILLA II
CHAPTER 12: THE KOSOVO ADVISORY OPINION: CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PRECEDENT
CHAPTER 13: WHY INTERNATIONAL LAW MATTERS IN THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE
PART III: SOVEREIGNITY
SELF-DETERMINATION
AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
CHAPTER 14: DILEMMAS OF SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERVENTION
CHAPTER 15: WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT SYRIA? TRAGEDY AND IMPOTENCE
CHAPTER 16: ON SYRIA: WHAT TO DO IN 2013
CHAPTER 17: INTERVENTIONARY MOTIVES
NSA THE SNOWDEN AFFAIR
PART IV: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
CHAPTER 18: TOWARD A GLOBAL IMAGINARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
CHAPTER 19: NONVIOLENT GEOPOLITICS: RATIONALITY AND RESISTANCE
CHAPTER 20: DECLINING MILITARISM AND RISING PROSPECTS FOR SOFT POWER GEOPOLITICS
CHAPTER 21: GLOBALIZATION-FROM-BELOW: AN INNOVATIVE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE
CHAPTER 22: THE LEGITIMACY WAR TEMPLATE: PALESTINE AND BDS
CHAPTER 23: APPROPRIATING NORMATIVE GEOPOLITICS: CIVIL SOCIETY & INTERNATIONAL LAW