The political economy of human rights enforcement /

Manokha, Ivan,

The political economy of human rights enforcement / Ivan Manokha. - ix, 280 pages ; 23 cm. - Global ethics series . - Global ethics series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-275) and index.

Introduction -- Human-rights enforcement in the post-Cold War years -- What is problematic about human-rights enforcement? -- The existing literature -- The political economy approach -- The structure of the argument -- The Existing Analyses of Human Rights Enforcement: a Critical Review -- Introduction -- Humanitarian intervention -- Strategies and techniques -- National interests -- Sovereignty and law -- Radical critiques -- The War on Terror -- Strategies and techniques -- National interests -- Legal approaches -- Just-war theory -- Radical critiques -- Human rights -- Conclusion -- Ideology and the History of Human Rights Enforcement -- Introduction -- Feudalism, the ideology of divine right and just war -- Capitalism and the ideology of individual rights -- Ideology and humanitarianism in the pre-Charter period -- Ideology and humanitarian intervention in the post-Charter period -- Conclusion -- Globalization and the Development of a New Form of Global Hegemony -- Introduction -- Globalization -- Economic transformations -- Political transformations -- The development of global governance -- Globalization as de-territorialization and de-historicization -- Global hegemony -- Conclusion -- Human Rights Enforcement and the Moral and Intellectual Leadership of Hegemony -- Introduction -- Moral leadership and human-rights enforcement -- Operation Provide Comfort -- Operation Restore Hope -- Humanitarian force in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Operation Restore Democracy, Haiti -- Humanitarian intervention in East Timor -- ECOWAS intervention in Liberia -- ECOWAS intervention in Sierra Leone -- NATO's Operation Allied Force in Kosovo -- The War on Terror: Military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Haiti and Bosnia: post-intervention economic reforms -- Intellectual leadership and human-rights enforcement -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: A Noble Practice in an Ignoble Context: Unintended Consequences of Human Rights Enforcement for the Late-modern world -- References -- UN Resolutions Cited in the Text.

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Humanitarian intervention

JZ6369 / .M36 2008

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