Overview

Why the international community should have intervened in Rwanda. Kassner contends that the violation of the basic human rights of the Rwandan Tutsis morally obliged the international community to intervene militarily to stop the genocide. This compelling argument, grounded in basic rights, runs counter to the accepted view on the moral nature of humanitarian intervention. It has profound implications for our understanding of the moral nature of humanitarian military intervention, global justice and the role moral principles should play in the practical deliberations of states.

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Author:   Joshua James Kassner
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780748696277

ISBN 10:   074869627
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   31 August 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Brief History and Overview; 1. The Rwandan Genocide; 2. My Project: The Failure of the International Community to Intervene in Rwanda; 3. Overview; 4. Conclusion; Part I - The Groundwork for a Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention; 1. Making Conceptual Room: Responding to the Skeptic; 2. Making Conceptual Room: Responding to the Noninterventionist; 3. Methodology: Why a Standard of Reasonable Deniability; 4. Constitutive Elements of a Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention; 5. Conclusion; Part II - Defending a Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention; 1. Critical Assessment of Alternative Accounts; 2. The Basic Right to Physical Security: Explication and Analysis; 3. Charity or Justice; 4. Additional Considerations; 5. Conclusion: Statement and Application of Principle; Part III: The Normative Framework of International Relations; 1. The Normative Framework of International Relations, State Sovereignty, and the Right of Nonintervention; 2. Justifying the Right of Nonintervention; 3. Critically Assessing the Justificatory Arguments; 4. Reconstructing the Normative Framework: Lessons Learned; 5. Reasons in Support of a Presumption of Nonintervention; 6. Conclusion: Reconstruction of the Normative Framework; Part IV: Completing the Transition from Theory to Practice; 1. Explication of the Responsibility to Protect; 2. Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect; 3. Critically Assessing the ICISS Recommendations for Institutionalization; 4. Normative Guideposts for an Alternative Institutional Structure; 5. A Reformed Normative Framework; Conclusion: Application of the Reformed Normative Framework and Concluding Remarks.

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The horrific moral failure of the world community during the Rwanda tragedy raises some of the most troubling dilemmas about humanitarian military intervention. Joshua Kassner's book responds to these quandaries with admirable clarity and impressive depth. This is a powerful book on the vexing questions of human wrongs and global responsibilities in our fast emerging globalized world.--Deen Chatterjee, Senior Advisor and Professorial Fellow, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah and Global Ethics Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York City

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Joshua James Kassner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Baltimore.

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