The Political Economy of Human Rights Enforcement: Moral and Intellectual Leadership in the Context of Global Hegemony

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Human-rights enforcement in the post-Cold War years......Page 12
What is problematic about human-rights enforcement?......Page 15
The existing literature......Page 19
The political economy approach......Page 25
The structure of the argument......Page 29
Introduction......Page 36
1 Humanitarian intervention......Page 38
Strategies and techniques......Page 39
National interests......Page 43
Sovereignty and law......Page 45
Radical critiques......Page 57
2 The War on Terror......Page 62
Strategies and techniques......Page 64
National interests......Page 66
Legal approaches......Page 69
Just-war theory......Page 72
Radical critiques......Page 75
Human rights......Page 77
Conclusion......Page 81
Introduction......Page 83
1 Feudalism, the ideology of divine right and just war......Page 86
2 Capitalism and the ideology of individual rights......Page 94
3 Ideology and humanitarianism in the pre-Charter period......Page 104
4 Ideology and humanitarian intervention in the post-Charter period......Page 115
Conclusion......Page 130
Introduction......Page 132
1 Globalization......Page 135
Economic transformations......Page 138
Political transformations......Page 147
The development of global governance......Page 153
Globalization as de-territorialization and de-historicization......Page 163
2 Global hegemony......Page 174
Conclusion......Page 182
Introduction......Page 184
1 Moral leadership and human-rights enforcement......Page 187
Operation Provide Comfort......Page 191
Operation Restore Hope......Page 194
Humanitarian force in Bosnia-Herzegovina......Page 198
Operation Restore Democracy, Haiti......Page 202
Humanitarian intervention in East Timor......Page 204
ECOWAS intervention in Liberia......Page 207
ECOWAS intervention in Sierra Leone......Page 209
NATO's Operation Allied Force in Kosovo......Page 212
The War on Terror: Military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq......Page 218
Haiti and Bosnia: post-intervention economic reforms......Page 224
2 Intellectual leadership and human-rights enforcement......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 244
Conclusion: A Noble Practice in an Ignoble Context: Unintended Consequences of Human Rights Enforcement for the Late-modern World......Page 247
References......Page 256
UN Resolutions Cited in the Text......Page 287
H......Page 290
W......Page 291