By Ivan Manokha (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230583482
ISBN-13: 9780230583481
ISBN-10: 134936200X
ISBN-13: 9781349362004
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On the one hand, they are methodologically individualist, that is, they reduce the phenomenon of humanrights enforcement to the properties, interests and capabilities of agents, and offer no analysis of structures. On the other hand, the available studies are ontologically reductionist in that they reduce social totality to specific and categorically separate domains – for example, politics, law or morality – and examine the phenomenon of human-rights enforcement as part of one of these realms, without making references to the others.
44 The Political Economy of Human Rights Enforcement Communitarianism, on the other hand, is particularist and oriented towards a shared community life: ‘the root notion of communitarian thought is that value stems from the community, that the individual finds meaning in life by virtue of his or her membership of a political community’ (Brown, 1992, p. 55). It is ‘a moral standpoint which is tied to a local discourse, a particular community or historical tradition’ and to the values communities hold (Thompson, 1992, pp.
It is the former that is usually invoked by scholars as the predecessor of humanitarian intervention, for it is jus ad bellum that provides a list of conditions that must be fulfilled before a just war is waged. The list encompasses, as has been maintained by many writers, many of the dilemmas that still face those who carry out humanitarian intervention today. The conditions developed over time to include legitimate authority, just cause, right intention, last resort, formal declaration, proportionality and reasonable hope of success.