Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality

ISBN-13: 9780198812852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

C. a. J. Coady; Ned Dobos; Sagar Sanyal

Opis

Ten new essays critique the practice of armed humanitarian intervention, whereby one state sends its armed forces into another to protect citizens against major human rights abuses. The contributors examine a range of concerns, for instance about potential adverse effects and about ulterior motives.

Recenzje

In this edited volume, contributors delve into the various ways that the use of military intervention to address humanitarian crises is flawed and even harmful. Several chapters focus on abuse of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm by states pursuing self-interest. Each contributes to the discussion supporting theoretical and philosophical arguments with references to case studies, which collectively make a cohesive manuscript. The strength of the volume in its entirety is twofold. First, the argument that the use of military intervention can do more harm than good is well-supported. The second strength is perhaps the more valuable: chapters that provide alternatives to military intervention that may better address the types of atrocities that motivated the creation of the R2P norm.

O autorze

C. A. J. Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University. His books include the influential Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992) and the widely cited Morality and Political Violence (2008). In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, subsequently published as Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics (2008). Dr. Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The New Pacifism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Dobos was a Visiting Scholar with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and is a Senior Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale. He is currently Assistant Regional Director of the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific Division. Dr Sanyal's primary interests are in political economy and Marxist philosophy. He has published in forums such as Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics, Philosophy Compass, and Social Scientist. He co-edited The Ethics of Human Enhancement, (OUP, 2016).