Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention
Ethical Demand and Political Reality
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 June 2018
- ISBN 9780198812852
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages234 pages
- Size 236x163x20 mm
- Weight 518 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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Ten new essays critique the practice armed humanitarian intervention, and the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine that advocates its use under certain circumstances. The contributors investigate the causes and consequences, as well as the uses and abuses, of armed humanitarian intervention. One enduring concern is that such interventions are liable to be employed as a foreign policy instrument by powerful states pursuing geo-political interests. Some of the chapters interrogate how the presence of ulterior motives impact on the moral credentials of armed humanitarian intervention. Others shine a light on the potential adverse effects of such interventions, even where they are motivated primarily by humanitarian concern. The volume also tracks the evolution of the R2P norm, and draws attention to how it has evolved, for better or for worse, since UN member states unanimously accepted it over a decade ago. In some respects the norm has been distorted to yield prescriptions, and to impose constraints, fundamentally at odds with the spirit of the R2P idea. This gives us all the more reason to be cautious of unwarranted optimism about humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect.
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.
Table of Contents:
Morality, Reality and Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction to the Debate
Complicating the Moral Case of Responsibility to Protect: Kosovo and Libya
Why Sovereignty Matters Despite Injustice: the Ethics of Intervention
Women and Humanitarian Intervention
Humanitarian Intervention and Non-Ideal Theory
The Leeriness Objection to the Responsibility to Protect
On the Uses and "Abuses" of R2P
Scrutinizing Intentions
"Words lying on the table"? Norm Contestation and the Diminution of the Responsibility to Protect
Responsibility to Protect, Polarity and Society: R2P's Political Realities in the International Order
Closing the R2P Chapter; Opening a Dissident Current within Philosophy of War
