Description: Product Description : Invoking Humanity: War, Law and Global Order (Political Theory and Contemporary Politics) Product Description Powerful passionate and highly topical critique of humanitarian intervention International political theorist with eight topselling booksWhoever invokes humanity wants to cheatIn this first time translation in English Danilo Zolo considers Carl Schmitts maxim in the context of the humanitarian war waged against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Spring of 1999 by 19 NATO countries This erudite and disturbing book is a political legal and philosophical reflection on an extraordinary display of Western Power and its present and future impact on the global system of international relationsZolos account of the war is located within the context of the irresistible drive of globalization which he argues brings economic financial and military ecological and ethnicreligious turbulence in its wake Not only the future of the Balkan region he suggests is at stake here but the fate of international law the future role of the United Nations and the political destiny of EuropeReviewThis is a powerful and wellargued book All those who believe in the justice of humanitarian military intervention and the legality of the enforcement of human rights by international tribunals should read it It will force them to think whether they are rightPaul Hirst Birkbeck College University of LondonDanilo Zolo has written a brilliantly provocative and fascinating critique of USled NATO strategy in the Balkans that is a troubling indictment of all aspects of humanitarian diplomacyRichard Falk Princeton UniversityAbout the AuthorBorn in Rijeka Danilo Zolo is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the University of Florence He has been a visiting Fellow at the Universities of Boston Cambridge Harvard Oxford Pittsburgh Princeton and the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil He is the author of eight books including Democracy and Complexity 1992 and Cosmopolis Prospects for World Government 1996 and he has been widely translated( it is an used product )
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Brand: Continuum
UPC: 9780826456564
MPN: 9.78083E+12
Model No: 9.78083E+12
Country of Origin: USA United States
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Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 5.5X0.47X8.5
ISBN-10: 826456561
ISBN-13: 9780826456564
SKU: SONG0826456561
Edition: First English Edition
No. of Pages: 220
Book Title: Invoking Humanity: War, Law and Global Order (Political Theory an
Number of Pages: 220 Pages
Publication Name: Invoking Humanity : War, Law and Global Order
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Subject: Europe / Eastern, World / European, General
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2002
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Danilo. Zolo
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Uk-Trade Paper
