Humanitarian Intervention: A History

by Edited by Brendan Simms , D. J. B. Trim

• ISBN13: 9780521190275
• ISBN10: 0521190274
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A pioneering account of responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century.

Table of Contents

List of maps	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Towards a history of humanitarian intervention	p. 1
Early modern precedents	p. 25
'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people': interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early modern Europe	p. 29
The Protestant interest and the history of humanitarian intervention, c. 1685-c. 1756	p. 67
'A false principle in the Law of Nations': Burke, state sovereignty, [German] liberty, and intervention in the Age of Westphalia	p. 89
The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire	p. 111
'From an umpire to a competitor': Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars	p. 117
Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840-1878	p. 139
The 'principles of humanity' and the European powers' intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria in 1860-1861	p. 159
The guarantees of humanity: the Concert of Europe and the origins of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877	p. 184
The European powers' intervention in Macedonia, 1903-1908: an instance of humanitarian intervention?	p. 205
Intervening in Africa	p. 227
The price of legitimacy in humanitarian intervention: Britain, the right of search, and the abolition of the West African slave trade, 1807-1867	p. 231
British anti-slave trade and anti-slavery policy in East Africa, Arabia, and Turkey in the late nineteenth century	p. 257
The origins of humanitarian intervention in Sudan: Anglo-American missionaries after 1899	p. 283
Non-European states	p. 301
Humanitarian intervention, democracy, and imperialism: the American war with Spain, 1898, and after	p. 303
The innovation of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment	p. 323
Fraternal aid, self-defence, or self-interest? Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia, 1978-1989	p. 343
Postscript	p. 363
Humanitarian intervention since 1990 and 'liberal interventionism'	p. 365
Conclusion: Humanitarian intervention in historical perspective	p. 381
Index	p. 402
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