Humanitarian intervention
By: edited by Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams.
Contributors: Nardin, Terry, 1942-; Williams, Melissa S., 1960-; American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Meeting
Series: Nomos ;; 47
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780814758311
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "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 that emerge when one state uses military force to protect innocent people from violence perpetrated or permitted by the government of another. Humanitarian intervention can be seen as fulfilling a moral duty to protect, but it is also subject to misuse as an excuse for imperialism in violation of international lay."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Emerged from the papers and commentaries presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP), held in conjunction with the American Political Science Association meetings in Boston in September 2002"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Principles; title: Traditional just war theory and humanitarian intervention / Joseph Boyle; title: Humanitarian intervention : a conflict of traditions / Anthony Coates; title: A duty to protect / Kok-Chor Tan; title: Humanitarian intervention as a perfect duty: a Kantian argument / Carla Bagnoli; title: Institutions; title: Legality and legitimacy in humanitarian intervention / Thomas Franck; title: Moralizing humanitarian intervention : why jurying fails and how law can help / Thomas Pogge; title: Whose principles? whose institutions? legitimacy problems of humanitarian intervention / Catherine Lu; title: Jurying humanitarian intervention and the ethical principle of open-minded consultation; title: Brian D. Lepard; title: The jury, the law, and the primacy of politics / Melissa S. Williams; title: From state sovereignty to human security (via institutions?) / Pratap Bhanu Mehta; title: The unavoidability of morality : a commentary on Mehta / Kok-Chor Tan.