The Dark Sides of Virtue : : Reassessing International Humanitarianism / / David Kennedy.

In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response. Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights, r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 13 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I The International Humanitarian as Advocate and Activist
  • ONE The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?
  • TWO Spring Break: The Activist Individual
  • THREE Autumn Weekend: The Activist Community
  • PART I I The International Humanitarian as Policy Maker
  • FOUR Humanitarian Policy Making: Pragmatism without Politics?
  • FIVE The Rule of Law as a Strategy for Economic Development
  • SIX Bringing Market Democracy to Eastern and Central Europe
  • SEVEN The International Protection of Refugees
  • EIGHT Humanitarianism and Force
  • PART III What International Humanitarianism Should Become
  • NINE Humanitarian Power
  • Index