Waging Humanitarian War
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Waging Humanitarian War

The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Waging Humanitarian War

The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention

About this book

Examines the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of military intervention for humanitarian reasons.

How severe must human suffering be before military intervention is considered? Can there be commensurate legal grounding for such an argument? Which actors are the most appropriate agents of intervention? In this reasonable and straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political conditions. Heinze presents the reader with a number of empirical examples, including the 1999 Kosovo intervention, the 2003 Iraq war, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The result is a more theoretically consistent-and therefore more practically workable-approach to humanitarian intervention.

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Table of contents

  1. Waging Humanitarian War
  2. Contents
  3. Preface and Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction:The Concept of Humanitarian Intervention
  5. 1. The Morality of Intervention in International Theory
  6. 2. The Consequentialist Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
  7. 3. Humanitarian Interventionin International Law
  8. 4. Universal Jurisdiction as Normative Legal Grounding
  9. 5. Who Intervenes and Why it Matters:The Politics of Agency
  10. 6. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index