Ethics and Foreign Intervention

by Edited by Deen K. Chatterjee , Don E. Scheid

• ISBN13: 9780521810746
• ISBN10: 0521810744
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection of original essays on the ethical and legal implications of humanitarian military intervention presents a variety of normative perspectives. It considers topics such as the just-war theory and its limits, secession and international law, and new approaches toward the moral adequacy of intervention. Written by well-known contemporary philosophers, the essays form a challenging and timely volume that will interest political philosophers and theorists, readers in law and international relations, and anyone concerned with the moral dimensions of international affairs.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
1 Introduction	1	(20)
DEEN K. CHATTERJEE AND DON E. SCHEID
PART I THE CONCEPTUAL AND NORMATIVE TERRAIN
2 Intervention: should it go on, can it go on?	21	(10)
STANLEY HOFFMANN
3 Selective humanitarianism: in defense of inconsistency	31	(22)
CHRIS BROWN
PART II JUST-WAR PERSPECTIVES AND LIMITS
4 Reciprocity, stability, and intervention: the ethics of disequilibrium	53	(19)
MICHAEL BLAKE
5 From jus ad bellum to jus ad pacem: re-thinking just-war criteria for the use of military force for humanitarian ends	72	(25)
GEORGE R. LUCAS, JR.
6 Bombing to rescue?: NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia	97	(21)
HENRY ENRY SHUE
7 The burdens of collective liability	118	(25)
ERIN KELLY
PART III SECESSION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
8 The ethics of intervention in self-determination struggles	143	(25)
TOM J. FARER
9 Secession, humanitarian intervention, and the normative significance of political boundaries	168	(21)
CHRISTINE CHWASZCZA
10 Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian intervention	189	(26)
ALLEN BUCHANAN
PART IV THE CRITIQUE OF INTERVENTIONISM
11 Respectable oppressors, hypocritical liberators: morality, intervention, and reality	215	(36)
RICHARD W. MILLER
12 Violence against power: critical thoughts on military intervention	251	(23)
IRIS MARION YOUNG
13 War for humanity: a critique	274	(22)
C.A.J. COADY
Index	296