1. Introduction: the international humanitarian order -- Sect. I. UN and world order -- 2. Bringing in the new world order: liberalism, legitimacy, and the United Nations -- 3. new United Nations politics of peace: from juridical sovereignty to empirical sovereignty -- 4. United Nations and global security: the norm is mightier than the sword -- 5. Humanitarianism with a sovereign face: UNHCR in the global undertow -- Sect. II. ethics of intervention -- 6. UN Security Council, indifference, and genocide in Rwanda -- 7. UNHCR and the ethics of repatriation -- 8. Building a republican peace: stabilizing states after war -- 9. Humanitarianism transformed -- 10. Conclusion: beyond the international humanitarian order?
Summary:
This book provides a critical exploration of the politics and practice of global ethical interventions. Organized in four parts Michael Barnett examines the tensions in the relationship between global governance, ethics, and international order.
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