Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. All are examples where
humanitarian intervention has been called into action. This timely
and important new volume explores the legal and moral issues which
emerge when a state uses military force in order to protect
innocent people from violence perpetrated or permitted by the
government of that state. Humanitarian intervention can be seen as
a moral duty to protect but it is also subject to misuse as a front
for imperialism without regard to international law.
In Humanitarian Intervention, the contributors explore the many
questions surrounding the issue. Is humanitarian intervention
permitted by international law? If not, is it nevertheless morally
permissible or morally required? Realistically, might not the main
consequence of the humanitarian intervention principle be that
powerful states will coerce weak ones for purposes of their own?
The current debate is updated by two innovations in particular, the
first being the shift of emphasis from the permissibility of
intervening to the responsibility to intervene, and the second an
emerging conviction that the response to humanitarian crises needs
to be collective, coordinated, and preemptive. The authors shed
light on the timely debate of when and how to intervene and when,
if ever, not to.
Contributors: Carla Bagnoli, Joseph Boyle, Anthony Coates,
Thomas Franck, Brian D. Lepard, Catherine Lu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta,
Terry Nardin, Thomas Pogge, Melissa S. Williams, and Kok-Chor
Tan.
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