Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century : Setting the Precedent / / Alexis Heraclides, Ada Dialla

• Autore: Heraclides Alexis
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Humanitarian intervention - History - 19th century; Humanitarian intervention; History
• Soggetto non controllato: History; Philanthropy; charity; international relations; modern history; sociology; Humanitarian intervention; Ottoman Empire; Russia
• Persona (resp. second.): DiallaAda
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and the political theory on intervention, linking them to ongoing issues, and paying particular attention to the lesser known Russian dimension.The book begins by tracing the genealogy of the idea of humanitarian intervention to the Renaissance, evaluating the Eurocentric gaze of the civilisation-barbarity dichotomy, and elucidates the international legal arguments of both advocates and opponents of intervention, as well as the views of major political theorists. It then goes on to examine four cases as humanitarian interventions: the Greek War of Independence (1821-31), the Lebanon and Syria (1860-61), the Bulgarian atrocities (1876-78), and the U.S. intervention in Cuba (1895-98).
• Titolo autorizzato: Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century
• ISBN: 9781781708484; 1781708487; 9780719098598; 0719098599
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910220111003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Humanitarianism (Series)