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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Historical Record -- The Ethical Questions -- Notes -- PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS -- 1 Grounding Human Rights: What Difference Does It Make? -- A False Antithesis -- The Need for a Grounding -- The Scope for a Grounding -- Notes -- 2 Theorizing International Rights: Two Perspectives Considered -- Introduction -- A Kantian Approach to International Rights: John Rawls -- A Contextualist Approach to International Rights: Charles Taylor -- The Rwandan Genocide as a Failure of International Rights -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Universalism and Cultural Specificity: Female Circumcision, Intrinsic Dignity and Human Rights -- Clitoridectomy and Female Circumcision: Judging Other Cultures -- Human Rights and Dignity -- Clitoridectomy, Harm, and Personal Autonomy -- Where To Draw the Line -- Notes -- PART II: THE ETHICS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION -- 4 Violent Humanitarianism - An Oxymoron? -- Introduction -- The Logic of Humanitarianism -- Humanitarian Violence: Some Conceptual Mapping -- Normative International Relations Theories -- (a) Sceptical Realism -- (b) Internationalism -- (c) Dilemmas Within Just War Theory -- (d) Cosmopolitanism -- (i) Utilitarianism -- (ii) Kantianism -- (iii) Human Rights -- Strict Duties? -- (a) 'The means are the ends in the making' -- (b) Strict Duty to Intervene? -- Consistency and the Wider Picture -- (a) Consistency -- (b) The Wider Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Humanitarian Intervention and the Logic of War -- Notes -- PART III: PROBLEMS OF SELECTIVITY AND CONSISTENCY -- 6 Genocide, Consistency and War -- The Serbian War -- Ethical Inconsistencies -- Crimes and the Global Court -- The Dream of Europe -- Notes -- 7 Selectivity, Imperfect Obligations and the Character of Humanitarian Morality