Humanitarian intervention / edited by Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams.

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 which emerge when a state uses military force in order to protect innocent people from violence perpetrated or pe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Annual Meeting
Other Authors: Nardin, Terry, 1942- (Editor), Williams, Melissa S., 1960- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2006.
Series:Nomos ; 47.
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Table of Contents:
  • Traditional just war theory and humanitarian intervention / Joseph Boyle
  • Humanitarian intervention : a conflict of traditions / Anthony Coates
  • The duty to protect / Kok-Chor Tan
  • Humanitarian intervention as a perfect duty : a Kantian argument / Carla Bagnoli
  • Legality and legitimacy in humanitarian intervention / Thomas Franck
  • Moralizing humanitarian intervention : why jurying fails and how law can work / Thomas Pogge
  • Whose principles? whose institutions? legitimacy challenges for "humanitarian intervention" / Catherine Lu
  • Jurying humanitarian intervention and the ethical principle of open-minded consultation / Brian D. Lepard
  • The jury, the law, and the primacy of politics / Melissa S. Williams
  • From state sovereignty to human security (via institutions?) / Pratap Bhanu Mehta
  • The unavoidability of morality : a commentary on Mehta / Kok-Chor Tan.