Ethics and Foreign Intervention

by Deen K. Chatterjee, Don E. Scheid

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521810746
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/17/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Dean K. Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah.

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

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Deen K. Chatterjee and Don E. Scheid; Part I. The Conceptual and Normative Terrain: 2. Intervention: should it go on, can it go on? Stanley Hoffman; 3. Selective humanitarianism: in defense of inconsistency Chris Brown; Part II. Just War Perspectives and Limits: 4. Reciprocity, stability, and intervention: the ethics of disequilibrium Michael Blake; 5. From Jus ad Bellum to Jus as Pacem: re-thinking just war criteria for the use of military force for humanitarian ends George R. Lucas, Jr.; 6. Bombing to rescue?: NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia Henry Shue; 7. The burdens of collective liability Erin Kelly; Part III. Secession and International Law: 8. The ethics of intervention in self-determination struggle Tom Farer; 9. Secession, humanitarian intervention, and the normative significance of political boundaries Christine Chwaszcza; 10. Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian intervention Allen Buchanan; Part IV. The Critique of Interventionism: 11. Respectable oppressors, hypocritical liberators: morality, intervention and reality Richard W. Miller; 12. Violence against power: critical thoughts on military intervention Iris Marion Young; 13. War for humanity: a critique C. A. J. Coady.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a wonderfully inclusive and argumentative collection of essays. Chatterjee and Scheid have brought together some of the best people writing about just war, humanitarian intervention, and political secession. All the hard questions are raised here, and the answers are intelligent and illuminating and, what is most important, sharply contested." Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study

"The strength of the volume resides in the vitality and boldness of younger contributors and the balanced and measured judgment of a few. it provides a sobering review of a problem on which students can easily go astray. Highly recommended." Choice

"The articles are essential reading for moral and political sholars of war and will also appeal to those new to the field, including those undergraduate or graduate students taking a first course on the morality of war." Philosophy in Review

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