Book contents
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Human Rights in History
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Interventionism and Humanitarianism under the Sign of Internationalism
- Part II The Struggle against the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Emergence of a Humanitarian Understanding of Intervention
- Part III Humanitarian Intervention and Its Solidification as an Imperial and Colonial Practice
- 7 The Fight against the Slave Trade as a Vehicle for the Colonial and Imperial Penetration of Africa
- 8 The Protection of Christian Minorities in the Ottoman Empire as a Selective Practice of Imperial Intervention
- 9 From Colonial Threat to ‘Humanitarian’ Example:
- Epilogue:
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Epilogue:
Perspectives on the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
from Part III - Humanitarian Intervention and Its Solidification as an Imperial and Colonial Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Human Rights in History
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Interventionism and Humanitarianism under the Sign of Internationalism
- Part II The Struggle against the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Emergence of a Humanitarian Understanding of Intervention
- Part III Humanitarian Intervention and Its Solidification as an Imperial and Colonial Practice
- 7 The Fight against the Slave Trade as a Vehicle for the Colonial and Imperial Penetration of Africa
- 8 The Protection of Christian Minorities in the Ottoman Empire as a Selective Practice of Imperial Intervention
- 9 From Colonial Threat to ‘Humanitarian’ Example:
- Epilogue:
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Finally, the book’s epilogue turns its attention to the further developments undergone by the concept of humanitarian intervention in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. What is striking is the degree to which the examples of the nineteenth century remained in people’s minds and took on the function of a discursive frame of reference in subsequent debates in international law. Their function was that of a surface onto which further developments of the idea towards current concepts and debates were projected and in which they could be reflected. All the while, however, there was a tendency to ignore their colonial and imperial aspects.
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- In the Cause of HumanityA History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century, pp. 237 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021