Freedom's battle : the origins of humanitarian intervention / Gary J. Bass.
Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969-
2008
JZ6369 .B37 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Freedom's battle : the origins of humanitarian intervention / Gary J. Bass.
Author Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307266484
0307266486
Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Language English
Description x, 509 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number JZ6369 .B37 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 341.5/84
Summary Gary Bass shatters the myth that the history of humanitarian intervention began with Bill Clinton, or even Woodrow Wilson, and shows, instead, that there is a tangled international tradition, reaching back more than two hundred years, of confronting the suffering of innocent foreigners. Bass describes the political and cultural landscapes out of which these activists arose, as an emergent free press exposed Europeans and Americans to atrocities taking place beyond their shores and galvanized them to act. He brings alive a century of passionate advocacy in Britain, France, Russia, and the United States: the fight the British waged against the oppression of the Greeks in the 1820s, the huge uproar against a notorious massacre in Bulgaria in the 1870s, and the American campaign to stop the Armenian genocide in 1915. He tells the gripping stories of the activists themselves: Byron, Bentham, Madison, Gladstone, Dostoevsky, and Theodore Roosevelt among them. Bass also demonstrates that even in the imperialistic heyday of the nineteenth century, humanitarian ideals could play a significant role in shaping world politics. He argues that the failure of today's leading democracies to shoulder such responsibilities has led to catastrophes such as those in Rwanda and Darfur--catastrophes that he maintains are neither inevitable nor traditional.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-481) and index.
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Introduction
Humanitarianism or imperialism?
Media and solidarity
The diplomacy of humanitarian intervention
Greeks
The Greek revolution
The Scio massacre
The London Greek committee
America and the Greeks
Lord Byron's war
Canning
The Holy alliance
A rumor of slaughter
Navarino
Syrians
France under the second empire
The massacres
Public opinion
Occupying Syria
Mission creep
Bulgarians
The Eastern question
Pan-slavism
Bosnia and Serbia
Bulgarian horrors
The Russo-Turkish war
The Midlothian campaign
Conclusion
Armenians
The uses of history
The international politics of humanitarian intervention
The domestic politics of humanitarian intervention
A new imperialism?.

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