Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions

by Brian D. Lepard

Book Overview

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."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023139
• ISBN13: 9780271023137
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"