The Politics of Humanity

The London School of Economics and Political Science The Politics of Humanity: Humanitarianism and International Political Theor ...

Declaration I certify that the thesis I have presented for examination for the MPhil/PhD degree of the London School of Economic ...

Abstract This thesis brings the concept of humanitarianism sharply into focus within the discourse of international political th ...

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List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Introduction: Humanitarianism in Crisis and the Promise of International Political Theory ...

List of Acronyms ALNAP Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action HFP Humanitarian Future ...

Acknowledgements I acknowledge with gratitude financial support from the International Relations Department of the London School ...

1. Introduction: Humanitarianism in Crisis and the Promise of International Political Theory As part of a major rebranding exerc ...

is in any meaningful sense a more humane place to be than that which preceded it. They also doubt, quite simply, whether all the ...

borrow Judith Shklar’s account of how political theory should explore such a concept.^4 The thesis argues that such humanitarian ...

I Locating Humanitarianism: Plausible Protagonists The question of what sphere of activity, and which group of actors, should gr ...

When the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich died in 2007, obituary writers paid tribute to him both as a musician and a ...

also, and rather more importantly, that of human rights. Many would like to bring about a situation wherein large-scale mortalit ...

consideration because he has undertaken a political career?^13 Or Tony Blair, now the namesake of many 10 year-old Kosovars?^14 ...

it is appropriate to the development of the argument, with the realm of professional humanitarianism, that is, the sphere of aid ...

development of bodies of International Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law ...

(3) Explore these areas through the contemporary normative debates on them in international political theory, as every point of ...

and military action to ban the Atlantic slave trade is a particularly useful case. Secondly, the acts of rescuers of Jews during ...

Médecins Sans Frontières won the Nobel Peace Prize, and in accepting it on behalf of the organisation, its president James Orbin ...

perspective, terms redolent of the tensions between and conceptual problems associated with notions of sovereignty, rights and j ...