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Beyond Westphalia?

National Sovereignty and International Intervention

edited by Gene M. Lyons and Michael Mastanduno

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Intervention has been a common feature of international politics. But in Beyond Westphalia? Gene M. Lyons and Michael Mastanduno make a distinction between unilateral and international intervention. They raise the question of whether international intervention is increasingly justified to provide humanitarian assistance, to protect human rights, and to compel governments to comply with their obligations under arms control treaties and environmental agreements. They also address the critical issue of legitimacy—of whether and how to right to intervene can be justified, politically and legally.

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Intervention has been a common feature of international politics. But in Beyond Westphalia? Gene M. Lyons and Michael Mastanduno make a distinction between unilateral and international intervention. They raise the question of whether international intervention is increasingly justified to provide humanitarian assistance, to protect human rights, and to compel governments to comply with their obligations under arms control treaties and environmental agreements. They also address the critical issue of legitimacy—of whether and how to right to intervene can be justified, politically and legally.

Under the Westphalian system of international order, each nation is understood to be sovereign and its borders are seen as inviolate. But with the emergence of worldwide problems and the increasing interdependence of nations, it is clear that what happens (or does not happen) in one country can have seriousrepercussions elsewhere. Beyond Westphalia? brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the question of whether recent political changes have shifted the balance between the sovereign rights of states and the authority of the larger international community.

Contributors are Jarat Chopra, Ken Conca, Jack Donnelly, Robert H. Jackson, Stephen D. Krasner, Friedrich Kratochwil, Gene M. Lyons, Michael Mastanduno, Janne E. Nolan, Nicholas Onuf, James N. Rosenau, and Thomas G. Weiss.

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Can scholars and students of international relations and world politics concentrate their studies on a different set of theoretical questions than those that were preeminent from 1648 until the end of the Cold War? This book does an excellent job of raising that very issue, with significant contributions from case studies and, more important, interesting theoretical essays.

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6.125
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9.25
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360
ISBN
9780801849541
Table of Contents

Preface and Acknoledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction: INternational Intervention, State Sovereignty, and the Future of International Society
Part I. Concepts
Chapter 2. Sovereignty as Dominium

Preface and Acknoledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction: INternational Intervention, State Sovereignty, and the Future of International Society
Part I. Concepts
Chapter 2. Sovereignty as Dominium: Is There a Right of Humanitarian Intervention?
Chapter 3, Interveention for the Common Good
Chapter 4. International COmmunity beyond the Cold War
Part II. Cases
Chapter 5. Sovereignty under Siege: From Intervention to Humanitarian Space
Chapter 6. State Sovereignty and International Intervention: The Case of Human Rights
Chapter 7. Environmental Protection, International Norms, and State Sovereignty: The Case of the Brazilian Amazon
Chapter 8. Sovereignty and Collective Intervention: Controlling Weapons of Mass Destruction
Part III. Syntheses
Chapter 9. Sovereignty in a Turbulent World
Chapter 10. Sovereignty and Intervention
Chapter 11. State Sovereignty and International Intervention: Reflections on the Present and Prospects for the Future
Notes
Contributors
Index

Author Bios
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Gene M. Lyons

Gene M. Lyons is professor emeritus of government at Dartmouth College. He has most recently served as co-editor of and contributor to The State of the United Nations, 1992.
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Michael Mastanduno

Michael Mastanduno is associate professor of government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Economic Containment: CoCom and the Politics of East-West Trade.