The Politics of Humanity
rhetorical humanitarian space and defending it through military action, without providing real physical protection for Kosovars ...
hands, express humanitarian concern, and do nothing. The concern is that humanitarian language, rather than operationalising cal ...
The fact that humanitarian space cannot be opened or maintained by humanitarians themselves suggests clear benefits from thinkin ...
states. The only examples of humanitarian action entirely conceivable in relation to conventional, individual moral agents discu ...
isolation from its political dimension. Even the most classical humanitarian agent cannot exercise moral agency without simultan ...
“bad states”. I will examine these issues with reference to the work of Peter Lawler, who sees in them the basis of a case for a ...
orientation and the deep, though diversely articulated humanitarian commitment, are precisely those that emerge as significant i ...
Much of the current spate of international political activism (anti- globalisation, anti-war, and so on) is transnational or tra ...
Indeed, it may be significant that many professional humanitarians fall into such a category.^43 Calhoun notes the danger, which ...
Interestingly, in a recent article, Nussbaum appears to have acknowledged the strength of these arguments.^48 She now draws on M ...
compelled to choose between despotism and inertia.”^51 The idea that people have often engaged in progressive humanitarian polit ...
Even if internationalism is an essentially domestically-generated practice that reflects, moreover, a culturally-specific accoun ...
This raises two important points. Firstly, that if we detach ourselves from the “emergency imaginary” and take a broader perspec ...
scholarship is, indeed, increasingly cognisant of these problems.^60 For Tanja Schuemer-Cross and Ben Heaven Taylor: "[the] prim ...
in elaborating an internationalist politics that might take seriously the capacity of states to endeavour change, both internall ...
people marching on the streets of Prague during the Velvet Revolution, brandishing placards bearing simple slogans such as “Trut ...
facilitates, of which it is also a product”.^72 In this case, the reiterative minimalism reflects an internationalist solidarity ...
The thick values are the particular values Walzer holds as a Jewish American social democrat. Obviously the boundaries for the r ...
“Truth” and “Justice” are “better defended with the moral support of outsiders than with their coercive intervention”.^78 A shar ...
that our willingness to engage in humanitarian intervention may be far less than to stop a suicide, as the risks and costs are l ...
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