Introduction
1: The Just War: The origins of humanitarian intervention
2: The Scourge of War: Humanitarian intervention and the
prohibition of the use of force in the UN Charter
3: 'You, the People': Unilateral intervention to promote
democracy
4: The New Interventionism: Threats to international peace and
security and Security Council actions under Chapter VII of the UN
Charter
5: Passing the Baton: The delegation of Security Council
enforcement powers from Kuwait to Kosovo
6: Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian intervention,
inhumanitarian non-intervention and other peace strategies
Bibliography
ASIL Certificate of Merit 2002
Simon Chesterman is a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy in New York
`Those looking to understand humanitarian intervention in
historical perspective, to consider the relationship between
humanitarian intervention and international law and to explore past
and present episodes of interventions that purportedly had a
humanitarian character are well advised to employ Simon
Chesterman's book as a guide ... Chesterman's sobering argument
should be read by those on both sides of the debate about the
efficacy and legitimacy of
humanitarian intervention.'
Michael Barnett, University of Wisconsin, USA
`Dr Chesterman's new work is a useful corrective to those who would
cheerily dissolve the distinction between legality and power, or
between legal analysis and agitprop. ... [The] book provides legal
and analytical tools that, hopefully, will help us differentiate
between an excusable illegality, and yet another cynical usurpation
of international law in the service of raison d'état.'
Melbourne University Law Review
`Review from previous edition In this lucid and insightful volume,
Chesterman provides a sophisticated but accessible account of the
historical and contemporary relationship between humanitarian
intervention and international law. Just War or Just Peace?
provides both an excellent teaching resource for advanced
undergraduates and beyond, and a wealth of information for
researchers and professionals working in this area.'
African Affairs
`a tightly argued and complex presentation, with numbered, easily
referenced topics in the style of a doctoral thesis (which it is).
A more textured work [than Christine Gray's International Law and
the Use of Force], it is arguably a more interesting read for an
audience that does not already have at ready access the historical
background or international law perspective to this difficult
subject. It is also a more accessible work for students, and
decidedly less dry and fragmented than many standard international
law texts ... Dr Chesterman gives us a fairly riveting review of
the history behind the modern rise of humanitarian
intervention.'
Books-on-Law
`Chesterman has written a tour de force that exposes the weaknesses
of the arguments supporting a doctrine of unilateral humanitarian
intervention in international society ... Chesterman rejects the
claim that states have a legal right to act as vigilantes in
support of Council resolutions, even if they believe that this is
the only means to stop a genocide. The powerfully argued thesis of
this scholarly work is that accepting this proposition in law is
'a
recipe for bad policy, bad law, and a bad international
order'.'
International Affairs
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