When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an
impossible dilemma. Two courses of action emerge: either to
retaliate against an abusive government on behalf of its victims,
or to remain spectators. Either course offers its own perils: the
former, lost lives and resources without certainty of restoring
peace or preventing worse problems from proliferating; the latter,
cold spectatorship that leaves a country at the mercy of corrupt
rulers or to revolution. Philosophers Fernando Teson and Bas van
der Vossen offer contrasting views of humanitarian intervention,
defining it as either war aimed at ending tyranny, or as violence.
The authors employ the tools of impartial modern analytic
philosophy, particularly just war theory, to substantiate their
claims. According to Teson, a humanitarian intervention has the
same just cause as a justified revolution: ending tyranny. He
analyzes the different kinds of just cause and whether or not an
intervener may pursue other justified causes. For Teson, the
permissibility of humanitarian intervention is almost exclusively
determined by the rules of proportionality. Bas van der Vossen, by
contrast, holds that military intervention is morally impermissible
in almost all cases. Justified interventions, Van der Vossen
argues, must have high ex ante chance of success. Analyzing the
history and prospects of intervention shows that they almost never
do. Teson and van der Vossen refer to concrete cases, and weigh the
consequences of continued or future intervention in Syria, Somalia,
Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq, Lybia and Egypt. By placing two philosophers
in dialogue, Debating Humanitarian Intervention is not constrained
by a single, unifying solution to the exclusion of all others.
Rather, it considers many conceivable actions as judged by analytic
philosophy, leaving the reader equipped to make her own, informed
judgments.
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