The Question of Intervention
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The Question of Intervention

John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect

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The Question of Intervention

John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect

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The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill's famous 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" as his starting point, international relations scholar Michael W. Doyle addresses the thorny issue of when a state's sovereignty should be respected and when it should be overridden or disregarded by other states in the name of humanitarian protection, national self-determination, or national security. In this time of complex social and political interplay and increasingly sophisticated and deadly weaponry, Doyle reinvigorates Mill's principles for a new era while assessing the new United Nations doctrine of responsibility to protect. In the twenty-first century, intervention can take many forms: military and economic, unilateral and multilateral. Doyle's thought-provoking argument examines essential moral and legal questions underlying significant American foreign policy dilemmas of recent years, including Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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Table 
2
The 
Record 
of 
Interventions: 
1815
–
2010
TOTAL
1815
– 
1850
1850
– 
1900
1900
– 
WW
1
WW
1
WW
1
– 
WW
2
WW
2
WW
2
– 
1991
1991
– 
2010
Number 
of 
cases 
334
60
83
16
32
20
36
76
11
Number 
of 
years 
195
35
50
15
4
23
5
46
19
Number 
of 
liberal 
regimes
49
8
13
29
29
29
29
49
49
Liberal
135
12
43
10
14
6
15
29
6
Success
107
11
34
10
11
4
13
19
5
Empire
73
6
29
9
9
2
11
5
2
Oppressive
13
2
1
0
0
2
0
7
1
War
18
3
9
0
0
0
2
4
0
None
19
3
4
1
2
1
2
5
1
Failure
28
1
9
0
3
2
2
10
1
Nonliberal
199
48
40
6
18
14
21
47
5
Success
114
28
24
3
8
9
16
22
4
Empire
73
13
15
3
8
7
16
11
0
Oppressive
55
11
7
0
4
6
11
13
3
War
36
5
7
2
3
2
7
8
2
None
7
4
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
Failure
85
20
16
3
10
5
5
25
1

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. PREFACE
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. 1. Nonintervention
  5. 2. Exceptions That Override
  6. 3. Exceptions That Disregard
  7. 4. Libya, the “Responsibility to Protect,” and the New Moral Minimum
  8. 5. Postbellum Peacebuilding
  9. Conclusion
  10. APPENDIX 1: John Stuart Mill’s “A Few Words on Non-Intervention”
  11. APPENDIX 2. List of Interventions 1815–2003 Michael Doyle and Camille Strauss-Kahn
  12. INDEX