The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention

Dr Fabian Klose is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, Germany.

• 1. The emergence of humanitarian intervention: three centuries of 'enforcing humanity' Fabian Klose; Part I. Theoretical Approach and Legal Discourse on the Concept of Humanitarian Intervention: 2. Humanitarianism and human rights: a troubled rapport Michael Geyer; 3. Humanitarian intervention and the issue of state sovereignty in the discourse of legal experts between the 1830s and the First World War Daniel Marc Segesser; 4. The legal justification of international intervention: theories of community and admissibility Stefan Kroll; Part II. Fighting the Slave Trade and Protecting Religious Minorities: Major Impulses for Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century: 5. Enforcing abolition: the entanglement of civil society action, humanitarian norm-setting, and military intervention Fabian Klose; 6. Lord Vivian's tears: the moral hazards of humanitarian intervention Mairi S. Macdonald; 7. From protection to humanitarian intervention? Enforcing Jewish rights in Romania and Morocco around 1880 Abigail Green; Part III. Transferring a Concept to the Twentieth Century: 8. Prudence or outrage? Public opinion and humanitarian intervention in historical and comparative perspective Jon Western; 9. Non-state actors' humanitarian operations in the aftermath of the First World War: the case of the Near East relief Davide Rodogno; 10. Humanitarian intervention as legitimation of violence – the German case 1937–9 Jost Dülffer; Part IV. Limited Options or Further Development? Humanitarian Intervention during the Cold War: 11. Cold War peacekeeping versus humanitarian intervention: beyond the Hammarskjoldian model Norrie Macqueen; 12. From the protection of sovereignty to humanitarian intervention? Traditions and developments of United Nations peacekeeping in the twentieth century Jan Erik Schulte; Part V. A New Century of Humanitarian Intervention?: 13. A not so humanitarian intervention Bradley Simpson; 14. The responsibility to protect: foundation, transformation, and application of an emerging norm Manuel Fröhlich; 15. Humanitarian interventions, past and present Andrew Thompson; Index; Bibliography.

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