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The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights will comprise a two volume set consisting of more than 50 original chapters that clarify and analyze human rights issues of both contemporary and future importance. The Handbook will take an inter-disciplinary approach, combining work in such traditional fields as law, political science and philosophy with such non-traditional subjects as climate change, demography, economics, geography, urban studies, mass communication, and business and marketing. In addition, one of the aspects of mainstreaming is the manner in which human rights has come to play a prominent role in popular culture, and there will be a section on human rights in art, film, music and literature.
Not only will the Handbook provide a state of the art analysis of the discipline that addresses the history and development of human rights standards and its movements, mechanisms and institutions, but it will seek to go beyond this and produce a book that will help lead to prospective thinking.
From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect: Old Wine in a New Bottle or the Progressive Development of International Law?1
From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect: Old Wine in a New Bottle or the Progressive Development of International Law?1
Introduction
Humanitarian intervention is a very old doctrine that dates back to the writings of Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius in the seventeenth century, and is deeply rooted in the Just War discourse in traditional international law (Holzgrefe, 2003: 25). It can be defined as ‘the use of offensive military force by a state or group of states, in the territory of another state, without its permission, for the purpose of halting or averting egregious abuse of people within that state that is being perpetrated ...
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