TY - BOOK ID - 77909968 TI - Political violence and the international community PY - 2007 SN - 1282396269 9786612396267 9047431340 9789047431343 1571053743 9781571053749 9781571053749 9781282396265 6612396261 PB - Leiden Boston Martinus Nijhoff Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Coups d'état. KW - Humanitarian assistance. KW - Intervention (International law) KW - Political violence. KW - Sovereignty. KW - War (International law) KW - Humanitarian aid KW - International relief KW - Violence KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - Sovereignty KW - State sovereignty (International relations) KW - International law KW - Political science KW - Common heritage of mankind (International law) KW - International relations KW - Self-determination, National KW - Hostilities KW - Neutrality KW - Military intervention KW - Diplomacy KW - Coup d'états KW - Coups (Coups d'état) KW - Government, Resistance to KW - History KW - Revolutions KW - Law and legislation KW - United Nations. KW - United Nations KW - Hội đồng bảo an Liên Hợp Quốc KW - United Nation. KW - Coups d'etat. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77909968 AB - Are civil conflicts and coups d'etat matters of international concern, or questions of national interest only? How can the increasingly common practice of condemnation and intervention by the United Nations and individual States into situations of extreme political violence be understood? Will civil conflict one day be considered illegal under international law, in the same way as international war? Offering a penetrating analysis that unpacks the relationships between political violence, international policy and international law, and explores international practice in more than 30 civil conflicts, this book challenges many assumptions we hold about the dividing line between domestic and international affairs, whether democracy is an international norm, and how long the international community is prepared to sit on the sidelines and allow ruthless political violence to determine political leadership in nations. This book fills an important void and captures the complexities and tensions inherent in an area where practice has moved faster than theory, and pragmatism clashes with idealism. ER -