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Lädt ... Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Interventionvon Gary J. Bass
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A strong account of humanitarian intervention in the 1800s and its impact on how we view modern intervention. Bass does an excellent job of showing the political disagreements over humanitarian intervention (especially in Britain between Gladstone and Disraeli) and bringing to light interventions in the Middle East. An underrated analysis of a perpetually neglected topic. ( ) It is easy to think of humanitarian intervention as a modern idea, developing from the international horror over the Holocaust or the slaughter in Rwanda or Sudan. However, the idea of humanitarian intervention goes back almost two centuries to the 1800s where Europeans intervened in several countries to stop bloodshed and slaughter. These stories are what the author focuses on. While the Victorian era uproars were often couched in terms of Christianity, the author argues quite effectively that these incidents are the direct predecessors to the intervention in Bosnia and Serbia in the 1990s, and the calls for intervention in Sudan today. Overall, it is a fascinating book, though the author fails at times to make the often dry information truly engaging. A must read for anyone interested in humanitarian intervention and human rights. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Gary Bass shatters the myth that the history of humanitarian intervention began with Bill Clinton, or even Woodrow Wilson, and shows, instead, that there is a tangled international tradition, reaching back more than two hundred years, of confronting the suffering of innocent foreigners. Bass describes the political and cultural landscapes out of which these activists arose, as an emergent free press exposed Europeans and Americans to atrocities taking place beyond their shores and galvanized them to act. He brings alive a century of passionate advocacy in Britain, France, Russia, and the United States: the fight the British waged against the oppression of the Greeks in the 1820s, the huge uproar against a notorious massacre in Bulgaria in the 1870s, and the American campaign to stop the Armenian genocide in 1915. He tells the gripping stories of the activists themselves: Byron, Bentham, Madison, Gladstone, Dostoevsky, and Theodore Roosevelt among them. Bass also demonstrates that even in the imperialistic heyday of the nineteenth century, humanitarian ideals could play a significant role in shaping world politics. He argues that the failure of today's leading democracies to shoulder such responsibilities has led to catastrophes such as those in Rwanda and Darfur--catastrophes that he maintains are neither inevitable nor traditional.--From publisher description. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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