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Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century. As well as analysing the theoretical and conceptual basis of the responsibility to protect, the book also contains a number of case studies looking at Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Libya. The final section explores when humanitarian intervention can succeed and the changing nature of international political legitimacy in countries such as India, Tibet, South Africa and Palestine.
1. Introductory Overview Part One: Law, Politics, and Morality 2. On Humanitarian Intervention and R2P 3. A New World Order Dilemma 4. Humanitarian Intervention: A Civil Society Perspective Part Two: Trial and Error 5. Afghanistan after Ten Years 6. Will We Ever Learn: Kicking the Intervention Habit 7. Intervention in Libya: Before and After 8. Obama’s Folly: Counterinsurgency Redux 9. Legal End Games: Kosovo at the World Court Part Three: Why Humanitarian Intervention Fails 10. When Intervention Can Succeed? 11. Winning and Losing Legitimacy Wars: India, South Africa, Tibet, Palestine
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Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century. As well as analysing the theoretical and conceptual basis of the responsibility to protect, the book also contains a number of case studies looking at Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Libya. The final section explores when humanitarian intervention can succeed and the changing nature of international ...