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Debating humanitarian intervention : should we try to save strangers? / Fernando Tesón and Bas van der Vossen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tesón, Fernando R., 1950- author.
- Van der Vossen, Bas, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Debating ethics.
- Debating ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarian intervention--Philosophy.
- Humanitarian intervention.
- Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages)
- Other Title:
- Should we try to save strangers?
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The work offers contrasting views of humanitarian intervention-a war aimed at ending tyranny or violence. Fernando Tesón argues that humanitarian interventions are sometimes permissible; Bas van der Vossen argues that as a rule they are not. The authors use the tools of modern analytic philosophy, in particular just war theory, to substantiate their claims.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 19, 2017). by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-020293-9
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