Challenges for humanitarian intervention : ethical demand and political reality /

Challenges for humanitarian intervention : ethical demand and political reality / edited by C.A.J. Coady, Ned Dobos, and Sagar Sanyal. - First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018. - 224 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 responsibility to protect / 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 / C. A. J. Coady -- Stepehn Zunes -- Richard W. Miller -- Janna Thompson -- Ramon Das -- Marco Meyer -- Ned Dobos -- Chrisantha Hermanson -- Aidan Hehir -- Robert W. Murray and Tom Keating -- Sagar Sanyal. 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- 8. -- 9. -- 10. --

Ten 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.

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Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects.
Responsibility to protect (International law)

JZ 6369 / .C35 2018