Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2012: The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Bellamy, Alex, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin, Understanding peacekeeping  (Polity Press, 2004)

Chatterjee and Scheid (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2003)

Duffield, M. Global Governance and the New Wars: the merging of development and security (London: Zed Books, 2001)

Hoffman, Stanley, The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996)

Holzgrefe, JL and Robert O. Keohane (eds), Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal, and political dilemmas (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Orford, Anne. Reading Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

(ICISS), The Responsibility to Protect, December 2001,

Wheeler, Nicholas, Saving Strangers, Humanitarian intervention in international society. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Woodhouse, Tom and Oliver Ramsbotham (eds) Peacekeeping and conflict resolution. (London : Frank Cass, 2000).

Weber, Cynthia. Simulating Sovereignty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)Stanley Hoffmann (Author)

Vincent, R. J., Non-Intervention and International Order (Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 1974).