The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention

by Rajan Menon

Book Overview

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities. These wars of rescue, waged in the name of ostensibly universal norms of human rights and legal principles, rest on the premise that a genuine "international community" has begun to emerge and has reached consensus on a procedure for eradicating mass killings. Rajan Menon argues that, in fact, humanitarian intervention...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199384878
• ISBN13: 9780199384877
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"