TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eyal Weizman
TI  - The Least of All Possible Evils: A Short History of Humanitarian Violence
SN  - 9781786632739
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Multinational armed forces
KW  - International relations
KW  - Humanitarianism
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - Gaza
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The humanitarian present -- Arendt in Ethiopia -- The best of all possible walls -- Forensic architecture : only the criminal can solve the crime -- Epilogue : The destruction of destruction
N2  - The principle of the lesser evil--the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice--has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt's exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, the author explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Medecins Sans Frontisres in mid-1980s in Ethiopia; the separation wall in Israel-Palestine; and international and human rights law in Bosnia, Gaza and Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of new research, the author charts the latest manifestation of this age-old idea. In doing so he shows how military and political intervention acquired a new humanitarian acceptability and legality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.--Publisher description
UR  - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1616/2012533072-b.html
UR  - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1616/2012533072-d.html
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