Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions / / ed. by Georg Meggle.

Humanitarian Interventions - that sounds nice; much nicer than wars, battles and use of military force. Foremost, the phrase makes you think of the delivery of sanitary goods, medication, of soup-kitchens. Here we are not supposed to think of interventions of this kind; we have to have humanitarian...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Practical Philosophy , 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (382 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Abstracts
  • I. Basic Issues
  • The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention
  • Collective Responsibility and Humanitarian Armed Intervention
  • Reconstructing Pacifism. Different Ways of Looking at Reality
  • How Far Shall We Go Humanitarian Interventions?
  • The Dilemmatic Structure of Humanitarian Interventions
  • Humanitarian Interventions and Other Duties to Humanitarian Aid
  • Help, Intervention and Involvement
  • Saving Lives in Nationalist Conflicts: A Few Moral Hazards
  • Humanitarian Intervention
  • II. International Ethics and Law
  • Humanitarian Interventions are Wrong
  • Humanitarian Intervention: Legal and Moral Arguments
  • Principles of non-UN Humanitarian Intervention
  • Early non-Military External Interventions. A Plea for a United Nations Intervention Council (UNIC)
  • Humanitarian Intervention: An Individual Right or a State Right?
  • III. Kosova / Kosovo The Moral Combat
  • On the Legitimacy of NATO’s Kosovo Intervention
  • NATO-Morality and the Kosovo-War An Ethical Commentary – ex post
  • “Humanitarian Intervention”: Media, Ethics and Law in the Kosovo War
  • Bombing Yugoslavia: Several Readings Text, Supertext, Subtext, Deep Text, Context – and a Pretext (with a Posttext)
  • The Example of Kosovo: Didactics against Humanitarian Interventionism
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Backmatter