Just War or Just Peace?: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law

ISBN-13: 9780199257997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 328 str.

Simon Chesterman

Opis

This book asks whether states have the right to intervene in foreign civil conflicts for humanitarian reasons. The UN Charter prohibits state aggression, but many argue that such a right exists as an exception to this rule. Offering a thorough analysis of this issue, the book puts NATO's action in Kosovo in its proper legal perspective.

Recenzje

Those looking to understand humanitarian intervention in historical perspective, to consider the relationship between humanitarian intervention and international law and to explore past and present episodes of interventions that purportedly had a humanitarian character are well advised to employ Simon Chesterman's book as a guide ... Chesterman's sobering argument should be read by those on both sides of the debate about the efficacy and legitimacy of humanitarian intervention. Michael Barnett, University of Wisconsin, USA

O autorze

Simon Chesterman is a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy in New York