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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820133403321

Autore

Zolo Danilo

Titolo

Invoking humanity : war, law, and global order / / Danilo Zolo ; translated by Federico and Gordon Poole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2002

ISBN

9780826456561

1-4742-1368-5

1-4411-7972-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Political theory and contemporary politics

Disciplina

949.7103

Soggetti

Kosovo War, 1998-1999

Europe Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Imperial Mapping and Balkan Nationalism -- 2. Why the War was Fought -- 3. A War against Law -- 4. An International "Political Justice" -- 5. The Consequences of the War -- Conclusion -- From Kosovo Polje to Seattle: historico-political chronology 1389-1999.

Sommario/riassunto

"* Powerful, passionate and highly topical critique of humanitarian intervention* International political theorist with eight top-selling books "Whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat."In this first time translation in English, Danilo Zolo considers Carl Schmitt's maxim in the context of the "humanitarian war" waged against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Spring of 1999 by 19 NATO countries. This erudite and disturbing book is a political, legal and philosophical reflection on an extraordinary display of Western Power and its present and future impact on the global system of international relations. Zolo's account of the war is located within the context of the irresistible drive of globalization which he argues brings economic, financial and military, ecological and ethnic-religious turbulence in its wake. Not only the future of the Balkan region, he suggests, is at stake here, but the fate of international law, the future role of the United Nations and the political destiny of Europe."--Bloomsbury Publishing.