Overview
Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. All are examples where humanitarian intervention has been called into action. This timely and important new volume explores the legal and moral issues which emerge when a state uses military force in order to protect innocent people from violence perpetrated or permitted by the government of that state. Humanitarian intervention can be seen as a moral duty to protect but it is also subject to misuse as a front for imperialism without regard to international law. In Humanitarian Intervention, the contributors explore the many questions surrounding the issue. Is humanitarian intervention permitted by international law? If not, is it nevertheless morally permissible or morally required? Realistically, might not the main consequence of the humanitarian intervention principle be that powerful states will coerce weak ones for purposes of their own? The current debate is updated by two innovations in particular, the first being the shift of emphasis from the permissibility of intervening to the responsibility to intervene, and the second an emerging conviction that the response to humanitarian crises needs to be collective, coordinated, and preemptive. The authors shed light on the timely debate of when and how to intervene and when, if ever, not to. Contributors: Carla Bagnoli, Joseph Boyle, Anthony Coates, Thomas Franck, Brian D. Lepard, Catherine Lu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Terry Nardin, Thomas Pogge, Melissa S. Williams, and Kok-Chor Tan.
Full Product Details
Author: Terry Nardin ,
Melissa S. Williams
Publisher: New York University Press
Imprint: New York University Press
Volume: XLVII
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780814758311
ISBN 10: 0814758312
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 December 2005
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
""A brilliant and provocative book, admirably observant of historical detail and subtly attentive to cultural nuance. Quiroga shies away from easy generalizations and painstakingly, lovingly, reflects on a variety of Latin American and Latino queer manifestations, from literature to performance. This luminous critical exercise is matched by the author's no less dazzling prose. This book not only furthers queer studies in Latin America, it is, in itself, a beautiful performance that should not be missed.""-Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, New York University ""A vivid analysis of how many Latin Americans have crafted alternative modes of understanding sexuality."" -""Hispanic American Historical Review"", ""I've been waiting for this book, savoring its previews. Reading Quiroga's agile and powerful prose is itself one of the adventures offered here. His balancing act between deadly serious issues of identity and control and the fun and pride of maneuvering accentuates these spectacular accounts of lesbian and gay creativity in the dense social contexts of Latino lives.""-Doris Sommer, Professor of Latin American Literature, Harvard University ""Incisive and witty, Quiroga's survey of the constructions of homosexuality in Latin America and the Latino U.S. includes brilliant readings of major literary figures--Villaurrutia, Pi-era, Cabrera--as well as pop culture icons, from La Lupe to Ricky Martin.""-Daniel Balderston, Chair of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa
Incisive and witty, Quiroga's survey of the constructions of homosexuality in Latin America and the Latino U.S. includes brilliant readings of major literary figures--Villaurrutia, Pi-era, Cabrera--as well as pop culture icons, from La Lupe to Ricky Martin. -Daniel Balderston, Chair of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa I've been waiting for this book, savoring its previews. Reading Quiroga's agile and powerful prose is itself one of the adventures offered here. His balancing act between deadly serious issues of identity and control and the fun and pride of maneuvering accentuates these spectacular accounts of lesbian and gay creativity in the dense social contexts of Latino lives. -Doris Sommer, Professor of Latin American Literature, Harvard University A vivid analysis of how many Latin Americans have crafted alternative modes of understanding sexuality. - Hispanic American Historical Review , A brilliant and provocative book, admirably observant of historical detail and subtly attentive to cultural nuance. Quiroga shies away from easy generalizations and painstakingly, lovingly, reflects on a variety of Latin American and Latino queer manifestations, from literature to performance. This luminous critical exercise is matched by the author's no less dazzling prose. This book not only furthers queer studies in Latin America, it is, in itself, a beautiful performance that should not be missed. -Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, New York University
<p> A vivid analysis of how many Latin Americans have crafted alternative modes of understanding sexuality. - Hispanic American Historical Review ,
A brilliant and provocative book, admirably observant of historical detail and subtly attentive to cultural nuance. Quiroga shies away from easy generalizations and painstakingly, lovingly, reflects on a variety of Latin American and Latino queer manifestations, from literature to performance. This luminous critical exercise is matched by the author's no less dazzling prose. This book not only furthers queer studies in Latin America, it is, in itself, a beautiful performance that should not be missed. -Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, New York University A vivid analysis of how many Latin Americans have crafted alternative modes of understanding sexuality. - Hispanic American Historical Review , I've been waiting for this book, savoring its previews. Reading Quiroga's agile and powerful prose is itself one of the adventures offered here. His balancing act between deadly serious issues of identity and control and the fun and pride of maneuvering accentuates these spectacular accounts of lesbian and gay creativity in the dense social contexts of Latino lives. -Doris Sommer, Professor of Latin American Literature, Harvard University Incisive and witty, Quiroga's survey of the constructions of homosexuality in Latin America and the Latino U.S. includes brilliant readings of major literary figures--Villaurrutia, Pi-era, Cabrera--as well as pop culture icons, from La Lupe to Ricky Martin. -Daniel Balderston, Chair of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa
Author Information
Terry Nardin is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States as well as editor of The Ethics of War and Peace. Melissa S. Williams is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Voice, Trust, and Memory and is the current editor of the NOMOS series.
