Justifying Violence: Communicative Ethics and the Use of Force in Kosovo (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)

Head, Naomi

ISBN 10: 0719083079 / ISBN 13: 9780719083075

Published by Manchester University Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Justifying Violence: Communicative Ethics and the Use of Force in Kosovo (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719083079
• ISBN 13: 9780719083075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach to an interrogation of the communicative practices which underpin claims to legitimacy for the use of force by actors in international politics. Drawing on the theory of communicative ethics, the book develops an innovative conceptual framework which contributes a critical communicative dimension to the question of legitimacy that extends beyond the moral and legal approaches so often applied to the intervention in Kosovo. The empirical application of communicative ethics offers a provocative and nuanced account which contests conventional interpretations of the legitimacy of NATO’s intervention.

About the Author

Naomi Head is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow