The Politics of Humanity
detailed engagement with many particular aspects of the humanitarian endeavour necessitates the use of one or more of these pers ...
theory represents an acknowledgement that, for many international or global problems, it makes little sense to separate out the ...
engagement with humanitarianism in a much broader sense, can be brought back later in the thesis. 1. International Political The ...
is also clear that this particular practice within humanitarianism is the dominant focus for international political theorists i ...
war can never be a humanitarian war, for the concept is simply an oxymoron in humanitarian terms. This issue will be examined in ...
intervention is that it poses the conflict between order and justice in international relations in its starkest form”.^111 While ...
sovereignty and the norm of non-intervention on the one hand, and universal human rights on the other.^118 In this context, much ...
establishing cosmopolitan responsibilities in practice.^119 David A. Hollinger links identity and solidarity, arguing that “[to] ...
This struggle takes place in relation to a different set of choices. Referring to Rwanda in 1994, Orbinski tells us: “[the] geno ...
professional humanitarians are among those who have been most honest about the lazy assumptions and contradictions of their prac ...
(so herself something of an outsider to the local community) how she would respond to the charge that a foreigner could never un ...
life to calculability”.^133 Edkins arrives at this point by drawing on continental philosophy with unquestionable rigour. But th ...
humanitarian action is always an emblem of failure”.^136 The “practical political aim” of this thesis is to enable us, in the wo ...
Chapter 3 deepens and broadens the analysis, exploring how humanitarian concern might spread beyond the sphere of already-commit ...
intentions to act is vital to understanding how the “politics of humanity” functions. Finally, the chapter broaches the troublin ...
contingencies of their endeavour, they can, by taking injustice seriously, create useful framings to politicise their empathetic ...
2. Humanitarianism and Human Suffering There are no humanitarian solutions to humanitarian problems.^1 Sadako Ogata’s oft-repeat ...
broadly, though, the purpose of this work is not to formulate a particular, definitive and impregnable argument against those wh ...
I From “Humanitarian Crisis” to “Crisis of Humanity” Typically, the trigger for humanitarian action, or at least humanitarian co ...
to wonder if Auschwitz would be considered a ‘‘humanitarian crisis’’ were it to happen today.^9 Elsewhere, Brauman has made clea ...
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