Just Intervention

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Anthony F. Lang Jr.
Georgetown University Press, 01/12/2003 - 240 páginas

What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a concept of a "just war," it follows naturally that the time has come to fill in the outlines of the realities and boundaries of what constitutes "just" humanitarian intervention.

Even before the world changed radically on September 11, policymakers, scholars, and activists were engaging in debates on this nettlesome issue—following that date, sovereignty, human rights, and intervention took on fine new distinctions, and questions arose: Should sovereignty prevent outside agents from interfering in the affairs of a state? What moral weight should we give to sovereignty and national borders? Do humanitarian "emergencies" justify the use of military force? Can the military be used for actions other than waging war? Can "national interest" justify intervention? Should we kill in order to save?

These are profound and troubling questions, and questions that the distinguished contributors of Just Intervention probe in all their complicated dimensions. Sohail Hashmi analyzes how Islamic tradition and Islamic states understand humanitarian intervention; Thomas Weiss strongly advocates the use of military force for humanitarian purposes in Yugoslavia; Martin Cook, Richard Caplan, and Julie Mertus query the use of force in Kosovo; Michael Barnett, drawing on his experience in the United Nations while it debated how best to respond to Rwandan genocide, discusses how international organizations may become hamstrung in the ability to use force due to bureaucratic inertia; and Anthony Lang ably envelopes these—and other complex issues—with a deft hand and contextual insight.

Highlighting some of the most significant issues in regard to humanitarian intervention, Just Intervention braves the treacherous moral landscape that now faces an increasingly unstable world. These contributions will help us make our way.

 

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Humanitarian InterventionDefinitions and Debates
1
The Moral Basis for Humanitarian Intervention
11
Normative Frameworks for Humanitarian Intervention
28
Hard Cases Make Bad Law Law Ethics and Politics in Humanitarian Intervention
46
Is There an Islamic Ethic of Humanitarian Intervention?
62
Principles Politics and Humanitarian Action
84
The Politics of Rescue Yugoslavias Wars and the Humanitarian Impulse
107
Humanitarian Intervention Which Way Forward?
131
Immaculate War Constraints on Humanitarian Intervention
145
The Impact of Intervention on Local Human Rights Culture A Kosovo Case Study
155
Bureaucratizing the Duty to Aid The United Nations and Rwandan Genocide
174
Humanitarian Intervention after September 11 2001
192
Contributors
217
Index
220
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Página 11 - To those for whom the greatest threat to the future of international order is the use of force in the absence of a Security Council mandate, one might ask — not in the context of Kosovo — but in the context of Rwanda: If, in those dark days and hours leading up to the genocide, a coalition of States had been prepared to act in defence of the Tutsi population, but did not receive...

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Anthony F. Lang Jr. is a lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews.

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