The Solidarist Challenge to International Society and Humanitarian Intervention: The Cases of Kosovo and Darfur

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Lorenz, Murielle Stéphanie Pereira; Kenkel, Kai Michael (Advisor). The solidarist challenge to international society and humanitarian intervention: the cases of Kosovo and Darfur. Rio de Janeiro, 2015. 193p. MSc. Dissertation -Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.This thesis studies the rise of intra-state conflicts following the end of the Cold War and how these often unpredictable and intractable conflicts became the source of international concern in the 1990s. Human rights violations in other states were increasingly portrayed as a threat to international order, leading to an increase in calls from human rights advocates and political actors for greater involvement from foreign powers and increased optimism concerning states' capacity to act within the international realm. In particular, there were hopes that the United Nations would take on more responsibility as a norm enforcer. Against this background, the present study explores how humanitarian claims in the 1990s Consequently, human rights advocates did not succeed in dislocating the primacy of order over justice. PUC-Rio -Certificação Digital