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chapter 1 Introduction: The international humanitarian order -- part Section I UN and world order -- chapter 2 Bringing in the new world order: Liberalism, legitimacy, and the United Nations -- chapter 3 The new United Nations politics of peace: From juridical sovereignty to empirical sovereignty -- chapter 4 The United Nations and global security: The norm is mightier than the sword -- chapter 5 Humanitarianism with a sovereign face: UNHCR in the global undertow -- part Section II The ethics of intervention -- chapter 6 The UN Security Council, indifference, and genocide in Rwanda -- chapter 7 UNHCR and the ethics of repatriation -- chapter 8 Building a republican peace: Stabilizing states after war -- chapter 9 Humanitarianism transformed -- chapter 10 Conclusion: Beyond the international humanitarian order?.

This book provides a critical exploration of the politics and practice of global ethical interventions. Organized in four parts Michael Barnett examines the tensions in the relationship between global governance, ethics, and international order.

What does it mean to have a "good" or "bad" reputation? How does it create or destroy value, or shape chances to pursue particular opportunities? Where do reputations come from? How do we measure them? How do we build and manage them? Over the last twenty years the answers to these questions have become increasingly important--and increasingly problematic--for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the creation, management, and role of reputation in corporate life. This Handbook, developed with support from the Oxford UNiversity Centre for Corporate Reputation, intends to bring definitional clarity to these issues, giving an account of extant research and theory and offering guidance about where scholarship on corporate reputation might mot profitably head. Eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, such as management, sociology, economics, finance, history, marketing, and psychology, have contributed chapters to provide state of the art definitions of corporate reputations; differentiate reputation from other constructs and intangible assets; offer guidance on measuring reputation; consider the role of reputation as a corporate asset and how a variety of factors, including stage of life, nations of origin, and the stakeholders considered affect its ability to create value; and explore corporate reputation's role more broadly as a regulatory mechanism. Finally, they also discuss how to manage and grow reputations, as well as repair them when they are damaged

This volume addresses the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies

This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book:provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, beginning with the anti-slavery movement in the early nineteenth century and continuing to today's challenge of post-conflict reconstruction and saving failed statesexplains the evolution o.