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Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars, seeking peace and justice in the 21st century, Richard Falk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars

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Richard Falk

Global horizons, 14

seeking peace and justice in the 21st century

"In the aftermath of the Cold War there has been a dramatic shift in thinking about the maintenance of peace and security on a global level. This shift is away from a preoccupation with how to prevent major wars between sovereign states to a preoccupation about non-state transnational warfare and violence and strife within states in a world order that continues to be juridically and politically delimited by spatial ideas of national sovereignty and national independence as signified by international boundaries. In this book, Richard Falk draws upon these changes 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 Syria. 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.This book will be of interest to students of International Relations theory, Peace Studies and Global Politics. "--, Provided by publisher

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Toward a new realism; Part I Law, politics and morality; 1 Sovereignty revisited; 2 The Goldstone Report and the Goldstone retreat: Geopolitics trumps law; 3 Toward a jurisprudence of conscience; 4 On humanitarian intervention: A world order dilemma; 5 Civil society perspectives on humanitarian intervention; Part II Trial and error; 6 The tenth anniversary of the Iraq War; 7 The Tet Offensive in the rear view mirror of the Afghanistan War: When ''defeat'' is ''victory'' 8 Rethinking the Afghan intervention9 Will we ever learn? Kicking the intervention habit; 10 Violently obstructing Freedom Flotilla II; 11 The Kosovo Advisory Opinion: Conflict resolution and precedent; 12 Why international law matters in the Palestinian struggle; Part III Sovereignty, self-determination, and the responsibility to protect; 13 Dilemmas of sovereignty and intervention; 14 What can be done about Syria? Tragedy and impotence; 15 On Syria: What to do in 2013?; 16 Interventionary motives, NSA surveillance, and Edward Snowden; Part IV Looking to the future 17 Toward a global imaginary for the 21st century18 Nonviolent geopolitics: Rationality and resistance; 19 Declining militarism and rising prospects for soft power geopolitics; 20 Globalization-from-below: An innovative politics of resistance; 21 The legitimacy war template: Palestine and BDS; 22 Appropriating normative geopolitics: Civil society and international law; Index