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"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."
- Herbert Hoover
(1929 - 1932)
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| | From Kosovo to Kabul:
Human Rights and International Intervention
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| | by David Chandler
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ZIN Product Number: 10217004
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 0745318843
Release Date: Jan 10, 1997
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This book takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issues have been brought to the fore in international affairs. Over the last decade, the language of international intervention has been transformed. The UN and NATO's new policy of interventionism - as shown in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor - has been hailed as "humanitarian action," part of a new "ethical" approach to foreign policy. The establishment of an international criminal court and ad hoc tribunals for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia reflect this shift in perception, which has been welcomed by world leaders, government critics and even NGOs.
David Chandler offers a rigorous critique of this apparently benign shift in international relations to reveal the worrying political implications of a new human rights discourse. He asks why the West can now prioritize the human rights of individuals over the traditional rights of state sovereignty and bars to military intervention, and why this shift has happened so quickly. Charting the development of a human rights-based foreign policy, he considers the theoretical problems of defining human rights and sets this within the changing framework of international law. Meticulous and compelling, "From Kosovo to Kabul" offers a disturbing insight into the political implications of a human rights-led foreign policy, and the covert agenda that it conceals.
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| | | |  | | | | Foreword | | | Acknowledgements | | | 1 | Introduction: 'The Idea of our Time' | 1 | | 2 | Human Rights-Based 'Humanitarianism' | 21 | | 3 | The Attraction of Ethical Foreign Policy | 53 | | 4 | The Limits of Human Rights Theory | 89 | | 5 | International Law and the Challenge of Human Rights | 120 | | 6 | War: The Lesser of Two Evils? | 157 | | 7 | The Retreat from Political Equality | 192 | | 8 | Conclusion: Humanism or Human Rights? | 220 | | References and Select Bibliography | 237 | | Index | 260 |
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