This book uses Paul Ricoeurs hermeneutic phenomenology of suspicion and naļveté to shift the focus of the ideology of humanitarian intervention from the distorting (Marxism, realism) and legitimizing (social constructivism) to the integrating function of this ideology. In this context, the book examines the ideological functions of the social imaginary pursuant to NATOs 1999 intervention in Kosovo, a turning point in the development of humanitarian intervention. It will be of great interest to those researching in the fields of International Relations, Political Theory, and humanitarian intervention.
Introduction
Chapter 1 The hermeneutics of suspicion and humanitarian intervention
Chapter 2 Paul Ricoeurs hermeneutics of suspicion and naļveté
Chapter 3 The ideology of humanitarian intervention
Chapter 4 The Holocaust metanarrative and the Kosovo intervention
Chapter 5 The hermeneutics of suspicion and naļveté in the Kosovo
intervention
Chapter 6 Beyond suspicion in the critique of humanitarian intervention
Conclusion
Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece.
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