Brendan Simms Unisex Multicolor Humanitarian Intervention: A History Hardcover Book

Name: Brendan Simms Unisex Multicolor Humanitarian Intervention: A History Hardcover Book
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Brendan Simms

Humanitarian InterventionA History\nAuthor(s): Brendan Simms, D. J. B. Trim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521190275, 978-0521190275\nSynopsis\nThe dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyranny and to religious persecution evolved from notions of the common interests of 'Christendom' to ultimately incorporate all people under the concept of 'human rights'. As well as examining specific episodes of intervention, the authors consider how these have been perceived and justified over time, and offer im.