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Reading Humanitarian Interventionby Anne Orford; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 46.00During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford argues that humanitarian intervention had far more exploitative effects. What, if anything, has been lost in the move from humanitarian intervention to the war on terror? more...
International Sanctionsby Peter Wallensteen; Carina Staibano
Routledge 2005; US$ 55.95The main theme of this collection of essays is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. more...
The Responsibility to Protectby International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
International Development Research Centre 2001; US$ 15.00The international community faces no more critical issue currently than how to protect people caught in new and large-scale humanitarian crises ? humanitarian intervention has been controversial both when it has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as in Rwanda. While there is general agreement internationally that we should not stand by in the face of massive violations of human rights, respect for the sovereign rights of states maintains a central place among the principles governing relations between states. more...
The Responsibility to Protectby Thomas G. Weiss; Don Hubert
International Development Research Centre 2001; US$ 30.00In his Millennium Report to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged the international community to address the real dilemmas posed by intervention and sovereignty. The independent International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) was established by the Canadian government in September 2000 to respond to that challenge. After a year of intense worldwide consultations and debate, the Commission now presents this path-breaking report. With its central theme of the ?responsibility to protect,? the report underlines the primary responsibility of sovereign states to protect their own citizens from avoidable catastrophe ? from mass murder, from large scale loss of life and rape, from starvation.... more...
Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Powerby Michael J. Glennon
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00NATO violated the United Nations Charter by bombing Yogoslavia, but nations have used armed force so often that the ban on non-defensive use of force has been cast into doubt. Nations remain hopelessly divided on what the rules should be. This title discusses this and other issues. more...
Humanitarian Interventionby J. L. Holzgrefe; Robert O. Keohane
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 37.00An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics. more...
Humanitarian Occupationby Gregory H . Fox
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 40.00This book analyzes the legal implications of international organizations assuming the powers of national governments. more...
United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Lawby Jeremy Matam Farrall
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 48.00Farrall surveys the history of UN sanctions. more...
The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authorityby Bruce Cronin; Ian Hurd
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 41.95Bringing together a range of experts, this book examines the degree to which the UN Security Council is evolving into an international authority with the legitimacy to act on behalf of the international community on a wide range of global issues. more...
International Peacekeepingby H. Langholtz; B. Kondoch; A. Wells
BRILL 2006; US$ 462.00International Peacekeeping is devoted to reporting upon and analyzing international peacekeeping with an emphasis upon legal and policy issues, but is not limited to these issues. Topics include inter alia peacekeeping, peace, war, conflict resolution, diplomacy, international law, international security, humanitarian relief, humanitarian law, and terrorism. more...









