Book contents
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Human Rights in History
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Interventionism and Humanitarianism under the Sign of Internationalism
- 1 The Nineteenth Century as the Age of Internationalism
- 2 Intervention as a Corrective in International Politics
- 3 The Rise of the Humanitarian Sensibility and the Emergence of Humanitarianism
- Part II The Struggle against the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Emergence of a Humanitarian Understanding of Intervention
- Part III Humanitarian Intervention and Its Solidification as an Imperial and Colonial Practice
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Intervention as a Corrective in International Politics
from Part I - Interventionism and Humanitarianism under the Sign of Internationalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Human Rights in History
- In the Cause of Humanity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Interventionism and Humanitarianism under the Sign of Internationalism
- 1 The Nineteenth Century as the Age of Internationalism
- 2 Intervention as a Corrective in International Politics
- 3 The Rise of the Humanitarian Sensibility and the Emergence of Humanitarianism
- Part II The Struggle against the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Emergence of a Humanitarian Understanding of Intervention
- Part III Humanitarian Intervention and Its Solidification as an Imperial and Colonial Practice
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The function of intervention, in this context, was to act as a corrective in international politics. Fundamental questions posed by this practice of intervention by force in the internal affairs of a sovereign state are addressed in Chapter 2, which locates them in the context of the Vienna order. What can be observed here is, first, the emergence of an anti-revolutionary paradigm of intervention, by means of which the ‘Holy Alliance’, made up of the continental powers Russia, Austria and Prussia, made a collective attempt to prevent and suppress internal unrest and revolutionary movements. Second, and in parallel to these efforts, the British struggle to suppress the Atlantic slave trade gave birth to a further-reaching conception of intervention centred on the military enforcement of an internationally agreed humanitarian norm.
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- In the Cause of HumanityA History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century, pp. 30 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021