Rethinking Humanitarian intervention : a fresh legal approach based on fundamental ethical principles in international law and world religions / / Brian D. Lepard

• Autore: Lepard Brian D.
• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 496 p. )
• Disciplina: 341.5/84
• Soggetto topico: Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian law; Humanitarian intervention - Moral and ethical aspects
• Note generali: Includes glossary of terms.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-455) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The Problem of Humanitarian Intervention and International Law. ; 1. The Need for a Fresh Approach -- ; pt. 2. Developing the Foundations of a Fresh Approach. ; 2. Identifying Fundamental Ethical Principles in Contemporary International Law and World Religions Relevant to Humanitarian Intervention. ; 3. Identifying and Interpreting International Legal Norms Relevant to Humanitarian Intervention -- ; pt. 3. Some Problematic Issues Relating to U.N.-Authorized Humanitarian Intervention. ; 4. Human Rights Violations as a "Threat to" or "Breach of" the Peace. ; 5. Consent. ; 6. Impartiality. ; 7. The Use of Force. ; 8. Obligations to Intervene or to Support U.N. Humanitarian Intervention.
• Sommario/riassunto: Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of ";unity in diversity."; A special feature of the book, which avoids the charge of ethnocentricity brought against other approaches, is that Lepard shows how passages from the revered texts of seven world religions may be interpreted as supporting these ethical principles. In connecting law with ethics and religion in this way, he takes a major step forward in the effort to formulate a normative basis for international law in our multicultural world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking Humanitarian intervention
• ISBN: 0-271-03069-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777883103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II