Humanitarian intervention : a history / [edited by] Brendan Simms and D.J.B. Trim.
Publisher's description: The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Towards a history of humanitarian intervention / D. J. B. Trim, Brendan Simms,
- PART I : EARLY MODERN PRECEDENTS: 'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people' : interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early-modern Europe / D. J. B. Trim
- The Protestant interest and the history of humanitarian intervention, c.1685-c.1756 / Andrew C. Thompson
- 'A false principle in the Law of Nations' : Burke, state sovereignty, [German] liberty, and intervention in the Age of Westphalia / Brendan Simms
- PART II : THE GREAT POWERS AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: 'From an umpire to a competitor' : Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars / John Bew
- Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840-1878 / Abigail Green
- The 'principles of humanity' and the European powers' intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria in 1860-61 / Davide Rodogno
- The guarantees of humanity : the Concert of Europe and the origins of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 / Matthias Schulz
- The European powers' intervention in Macedonia, 1903-1908 : an instance of humanitarian intervention? / Davide Rodogno
- PART III : INTERVENING IN AFRICA: The price of legitimacy in humanitarian intervention : Britain, the European powers and the abolition of the West African slave trade, 1807-1867 / Maeve Ryan
- British anti-slave trade and anti-slavery policy in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey in the late nineteenth century / William Mulligan
- The origins of humanitarian intervention in Sudan : Anglo-American missionaries after 1899 / Gideon Mailer
- PART IV : NON-EUROPEAN STATES: Humanitarian intervention, democracy, and imperialism : the American war with Spain, 1898, and after / Mike Sewell
- The innovation of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment / Thomas J. W. Probert
- Fraternal aid, self-defence, or self-interest? : Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia, 1978-1989 / Sophie Quinn-Judge
- PART V : POSTSCRIPT: Humanitarian intervention since 1990 and 'liberal interventionism' / Matthew Jamison
- Conclusion : humanitarian intervention in historical perspective / D. J. B. Trim.