Ethics and Foreign Intervention

Name: Ethics and Foreign Intervention
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ISBN: 9780521810746

ISBN-10: 0521810744

ISBN-13: 9780521810746

Edition: 2003

Authors: Deen K. Chatterjee, Don E. Scheid

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This book is a collection of original essays by some of the leading moral and political thinkers of our time on the ethical and legal implications of humanitarian military intervention. As the rules for the 'new world order' are worked out in the aftermath of the Cold War, this issue is likely to arise more and more frequently, and the moral implications of such interventions will become a major focus for international law, the United Nations, regional organizations such as NATO, and the foreign policies of nations. The essays collected here present a variety of normative perspectives on topics such as the just-war theory and its limits, secession and international law, and new approaches…

Book details

List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.33" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Don E. Scheid is Professor of Philosophy at Winona State University.



Notes on contributors


Preface



Introduction




The Conceptual and Normative Terrain



Intervention: should it go on, can it go on?




Selective humanitarianism: in defense of inconsistency




Just-War Perspectives and Limits



Reciprocity, stability, and intervention: the ethics of disequilibrium




From jus ad bellum to jus ad pacem: re-thinking just-war criteria for the use of military force for humanitarian ends




Bombing to rescue?: NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia




The burdens of collective liability




Secession and International Law



The ethics of intervention in self-determination struggles




Secession, humanitarian intervention, and the normative significance of political boundaries




Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian intervention




The Critique of Interventionism



Respectable oppressors, hypocritical liberators: morality, intervention, and reality




Violence against power: critical thoughts on military intervention




War for humanity: a critique



Index