Rwanda and the Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention / / Joshua James Kassner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kassner, Joshua James,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights : SGJHR
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Why the international community should have intervened in RwandaKassner 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.A new approach to the intersection of human and sovereign rights that is of tremendous moral, political and legal importance to theorists working in international relations todayChallenges the immutability of the right of non-intervention held by sovereign states, assessing when it becomes right for the international community to intervene militarily in order to avoid another Rwanda

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Brief History and Overview -- 1. The Groundwork for a Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention -- 2. Defending a Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention -- 3. The Normative Framework of International Relations -- 4. Completing the Transition from Theory to Practice -- Conclusion: Application of the Reformed Normative Framework and Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index