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Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions (Hardcover)
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Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions (Hardcover)
Series: Practical Philosophy
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Humanitarian Interventions - that sounds nice; much nicer than
wars, battles and use of military force. Foremost, the phrase makes
you think of the delivery of sanitary goods, medication, of
soup-kitchens. Here we are not supposed to think of interventions
of this kind; we have to have humanitarian interventions in mind
which are humanitarian intervention-wars. (I) At exactly what point
is the use of military force a humanitarian intervention? What is
the humanitarian aspect of those interventions? Their occasion?
Their motive? Their alleged as well as their actual consequences?
(II) At exactly what point are humanitarian intervention-wars
morally justifiable? Are they justifiable even if they are wars of
aggression breaching international law? And finally: (III) Was the
war which was presented to us as the paradigmatic example of a
humanitarian-intervention-war, that is: the war in Kosovo in the
spring of 1999 (with over 37,000 bombing missions), really
justifiable as a humanitarian intervention? Many of us wanted to
believe so at the time. Does our ex ante judgement hold today in an
ex post reflection? And which lessons for the future should we
learn from the success or failure of this humanitarian war? These
are the questions proposed in this book; therefore, it is concerned
with problems of semantics (part I), problems of moral assessment
(part II) and with the moral, legal and political conclusions we
draw from our experiences with the war in Kosovo, our primary
example of a humanitarian intervention (part III). International
experts in the areas of philosophy, international law, sociology
and peace studies debated these questions vigorously for several
days. This is the resulting volume.
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