Not available in 2015/16
IR463 Half Unit
The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention
This information is for the 2015/16 session.
Teacher responsible
Prof Christopher Brown CLM 4.08
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in China in Comparative Perspective, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Human Rights, MSc in International Migration and Public Policy, MSc in International Relations, MSc in International Relations (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Sciences Po), MSc in International Relations (Research), MSc in International Relations Theory, MSc in Political Theory and MSc in Theory and History of International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Course content
The course will involve both theoretical explorations of the nature and prehistory of 'humanitarianism' and empirical examples of claimed 'humanitarian interventions' (such as Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor) along with cases where it is claimed interventions should have taken place (such as Rwanda 1994) and others where humanitarianism has been combined with geo-strategic motivations. Notions of 'global social justice' as a response to the root causes of humanitarian disasters will be explored, along with the fut