Humanitarian Intervention : : NOMOS XLVII / / ed. by Terry Nardin, 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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I PRINCIPLES
  • 1 TRADITIONAL JUST WAR THEORY AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
  • 2 HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: A CONFLICT OF TRADITIONS
  • 3 THE DUTY TO PROTECT
  • 4 HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AS A PERFECT DUTY: A KANTIAN ARGUMENT
  • PART II INSTITUTIONS
  • 5 LEGALITY AND LEGITIMACY IN HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
  • 6 MORALIZING HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: WHY JURYING FAILS AND HOW LAW CAN WORK
  • 7 WHOSE PRINCIPLES? WHOSE INSTITUTIONS? LEGITIMACY CHALLENGES FOR “HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION”
  • 8 JURYING HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND THE ETHICAL PRINCIPLE OF OPEN-MINDED CONSULTATION
  • 9 THE JURY, THE LAW, AND THE PRIMACY OF POLITICS
  • 10 FROM STATE SOVEREIGNTY TO HUMAN SECURITY (VIA INSTITUTIONS?)
  • 11 THE UNAVOIDABILITY OF MORALITY: A COMMENTARY ON MEHTA
  • INDEX