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Justifying Violence: Communicative Ethics and the Use of Force in Kosovo

Justifying Violence: Communicative Ethics and the Use of Force in Kosovo

Head, Naomi

Paperback

Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1526116987
ISBN13: 9781526116987
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jul 20 2017
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach to an interrogation of the communicative practices which underpin claims to legitimacy for the use of force by actors in international politics. Drawing on the theory of communicative ethics, the book develops an innovative conceptual framework which contributes a critical communicative dimension to the question of legitimacy that extends beyond the moral and legal approaches so often applied to the intervention in Kosovo. The empirical application of communicative ethics offers a provocative and nuanced account which contests conventional interpretations of the legitimacy of NATO's intervention.

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