Ethics of humanitarian interventions / Georg Meggle (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meggle, Georg.

Series:

Practical philosophy ; Bd. 7.

Practical philosophy ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects.

Humanitarian intervention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 interventions in mind which are humanitarian intervention-wars. (I) At exactly what point is the use of military force a humanitarian intervention? What is the humanitarian aspect of those interventions? Their occasion? Their motive? Their alleged as well as their actual consequences? (II) At exactly what point are humanitarian intervention-wars morally justifiable? Are they justifiable even if they are wars of aggression breaching international law? And finally: (III) Was the war which was presented to us as the paradigmatic example of a humanitarian-intervention-war, that is: the war in Kosovo in the spring of 1999 (with over 37,000 bombing missions), really justifiable as a humanitarian intervention? Many of us wanted to believe so at the time. Does our ex ante judgement hold today in an ex post reflection? And which lessons for the future should we learn from the success or failure of this humanitarian war? These are the questions proposed in this book; therefore, it is concerned with problems of semantics (part I), problems of moral assessment (part II) and with the moral, legal and political conclusions we draw from our experiences with the war in Kosovo, our primary example of a humanitarian intervention (part III). International experts in the areas of philosophy, international law, sociology and peace studies debated these questions vigorously for several days. This is the resulting volume.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

CONTENTS

Preface

Abstracts

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

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?

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110327731

3110327732

OCLC:

851970829