Danilo Zolo

Invoking Humanity

War, Law and Global Order

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* Powerful, passionate and highly topical critique of humanitarian intervention* International political theorist with eight top-selling booksWhoever invokes humanity wants to cheat.In this first time translation in English, Danilo Zolo considers Carl Schmitt's maxim in the context of the humanitarian war waged against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Spring of 1999 by 19 NATO countries. This erudite and disturbing book is a political, legal and philosophical reflection on an extraordinary display of Western Power and its present and future impact on the global system of international relations.Zolo's account of the war is located wi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-7972-2
EAN: 9781441179722
Produktnummer: 17021099
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 11'227 KB

Über den Autor

Born in Rijeka, Danilo Zolo is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the University of Florence. He has been a visiting Fellow at the Universities of Boston, Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, Pittsburgh, Princeton and the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil. He is the author of eight books, including Democracy and Complexity (1992), and Cosmopolis: Prospects for World Government (1996) and he has been widely translated.