Read The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention by Rajan Menon Online
Download * The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention PDF by # Rajan Menon eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention Recognizing the limitations of humanitarian intervention Paul Mastin When a people group is being oppressed or is suffering persecution or even genocide, the global community sometimes calls for humanitarian intervention. But what are the limits? What are the guidelines? Is it even practical, possible, or effective? In The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention, City College of New York professor Rajan Menon argues that "the terms of peace and justice proffered by humanitarian interventionists wit
| Title | : | The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199384878 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Mearsheimer, R. The only relevant law is, as Menon demonstrates, the law of unintended consequences." --Eric Posner, Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, University of Chicago "This is an immensely admirable book - concise, lucid, and above all tough-minded. A must-read." --Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History, Harvard University "Richly documented and persuasiveThe Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention is an excellent guide for policy-makers, and for anyone participating in the policy discussion, the next time a situation arises in which talk begins about using military force to save lives." --Paul R. P. He also makes clear that the advoca
This, in no small measure, stems from the hubris of leaders-and the acolytes of humanitarian intervention-who have come to believe that they possesses the wisdom and wherewithal to bestow freedom and stability upon societies about which they know little.. The advocates of humanitarian intervention have produced a mountain of writings to support their claim that human rights precepts now exert an unprecedented influence on states' foreign policies and that we can therefore anticipate a comprehensive
Rumer, is Conflict inUkraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (MIT Press, 2015). Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science, City College of New York/City University of New York, and a Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. His most recent book for Oxford University Press, The End of Alliances, was published in 2007 and wa
Recognizing the limitations of humanitarian intervention Paul Mastin When a people group is being oppressed or is suffering persecution or even genocide, the global community sometimes calls for humanitarian intervention. But what are the limits? What are the guidelines? Is it even practical, possible, or effective? In The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention, City College of New York professor Rajan Menon argues that "the terms of peace and justice proffered by humanitarian interventionists withstand neither ethical nor practical scrutiny."Menon reviews instances of humanitarian intervention (and lack thereof) in the late 20th and 21st centuries, including in Libya, Gr. An important new critique of ideological thinking in US foreign policy Graham E. Fuller Rajan Menon’s new book, “The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention,” launches a timely and compelling argument against a dominant line of thought lying behind so much of modern American foreign policy—“humanitarian intervention” or “liberal interventionism.” We are, of course, well familiar with Republican and neocon readiness to go to war, but the reality is that many Democrat Party leaders have been no less seduced into a series of optional foreign military interventions, with increasingly disastrous consequences. Hillary Clinton is today one of th. "Finely researched, honest, and hard-hitting – can make a great textbook" according to Olena Lennon. With a historian’s scrupulousness, Menon draws on lessons of humanitarian interventions -- from the Ottoman Empire to East Pakistan, Cambodia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia, Darfur, and Syria -- to call into question “cosmopolitan sentiment” and “ethical commitment” often used to justify such interventions.Menon shrewdly exposes the hypocrisy of humanitarian interventions by showing that states only intervene to save people in other countries with their practical goals in mind; and if such intervention would compromise national (read: economic) interest, they would, at best, issu
Download The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
Download as PDF : Click Here
Download as DOC : Click Here
Download as RTF : Click Here