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Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century: Setting the Precedent

Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century: Setting the Precedent

Heraclides, Alexis
Dialla, Ada

Hardcover

Series: Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches

General LawGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0719089905
ISBN13: 9780719089909
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 2015
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and the political theory on intervention, linking them to ongoing issues, and paying particular attention to the lesser known Russian dimension.

The book begins by tracing the genealogy of the idea of humanitarian intervention to the Renaissance, evaluating the Eurocentric gaze of the civilisation-barbarity dichotomy, and elucidates the international legal arguments of both advocates and opponents of intervention, as well as the views of major political theorists. It then goes on to examine four cases as humanitarian interventions: the Greek War of Independence (1821-31), the Lebanon and Syria (1860-61), the Bulgarian atrocities (1876-78), and the U.S. intervention in Cuba (1895-98).

Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century will be of benefit to scholars and students of International Relations, international history, international law and international political theory.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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