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From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention

From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention


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This new and updated edition of David Chandler's acclaimed book takes a critical look at the way in which human rights issues have been brought to the fore in international affairs.

The UN and Nato's new policy of interventionism—as shown in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor—has been hailed as part of a new 'ethical' approach to foreign policy. David Chandler offers a rigorous critique of this apparently benign shift in international relations to reveal the worrying political implications of a new human rights discourse. He asks why the West can now prioritise the rights of individuals over the traditional rights of state sovereignty, and why this shift has happened so quickly. Charting the development of a human rights-based foreign policy, he considers the theoretical problems of defining human rights and sets this within the changing framework of international law.

Meticulous and compelling, From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond offers a disturbing insight into the political implications of a human rights-led foreign policy, and the covert agenda that it conceals.



Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: ‘The Idea of the Age’
2. Human Rights-Based ‘Humanitarianism’
3. The Attraction of Ethical Foreign Policy
4. The Limits of Human Rights Theory
5. International Law and the Challenge of Human Rights
6. War: The Lesser of Two Evils
7. The Retreat from Political Equality
8. Conclusion: Humanism or Human Rights
Afterword to new edition
References and Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author :
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He has written widely on democracy, human rights and international relations and is the author of Hollow Hegemony (Pluto, 2009), Empire in Denial (Pluto, 2006), From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond (Pluto, 2005) and Bosnia (Pluto, 2000).

Review :
'Deftly unpicks the hypocrisy and double standards behind our 'ethical' bombing in the Balkans and Asia' 'That the human rights rationale for interventionism is a genuine menace to human rights and to democracy is convincingly demonstrated in this fine book' 'David Chandler has emerged in recent years as one of Britain's foremost critics of the hypocrisy of human rights' 'Thorough and relentless in its critique of human rights consensus'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780745325040
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 392 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0745325041
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: Human Rights and International Intervention
  • Width: 135 mm


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