The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect
The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect

Author: Alex J. Bellamy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 1169

ISBN-13: 0198753845

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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is a response to the many conscious-shocking cases where atrocities - on the worst scale - have occurred even during the post 1945 period when the United Nations was built to save us all from the scourge of genocide. The R2P concept accords to sovereign states and international institutions a responsibility to assist peoples who are at risk - or experiencing - the worst atrocities. R2P maintains that collective action should be taken by members of the United Nations to prevent or halt such gross violations of basic human rights. This Handbook, containing contributions from leading theorists, and practitioners (including former foreign ministers and special advisors), examines the progress that has been made in the last 10 years; it also looks forward to likely developments in the next decade.

Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
Health in Humanitarian Emergencies

Author: David Townes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1107062683

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A comprehensive, best practices resource for public health and healthcare practitioners and students interested in humanitarian emergencies.

A History of Humanitarian Intervention
A History of Humanitarian Intervention

Author: Mark Swatek-Evenstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 110706192X

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An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.

The Military Enlightenment
The Military Enlightenment

Author: Christy L. Pichichero

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1501712292

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The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.

A History of Law in Europe
A History of Law in Europe

Author: Antonio Padoa-Schioppa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 823

ISBN-13: 1107180694

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The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.

Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

Author: Gabriel Paquette

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1107328594

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As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.

Inventing Human Rights: A History
Inventing Human Rights: A History

Author: Lynn Hunt

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0393069729

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“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.