Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect
considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in
response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as
found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more
recently. The doctrine of the responsibility to protect asserts
that when a state is failing to uphold its citizens' human rights,
the international community has a responsibility to protect these
citizens, including by undertaking humanitarian intervention. It is
unclear, however, which particular agent should be tasked with this
responsibility. Should we prefer intervention by the UN, NATO, a
regional or subregional organization (such as the African Union), a
state, a group of states, or someone else? This book answers this
question by, first, determining which qualities of interveners are
morally significant and, second, assessing the relative importance
of these qualities. For instance, is it important that an
intervener have a humanitarian motive? Should an intervener be
welcomed by those it is trying to save? How important is it that an
intervener will be effective and what does this mean in practice?
The book then considers the more empirical question of whether (and
to what extent) the current interveners actually possess these
qualities, and therefore should intervene. For instance, how
effective can we expect UN action to be in the future? Is NATO
likely to use humanitarian means? Overall, it develops a particular
normative conception of legitimacy for humanitarian intervention.
It uses this conception of legitimacy to assess not only current
interveners, but also the desirability of potential reforms to the
mechanisms and agents of humanitarian intervention.
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