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Challenges for humanitarian intervention : ethical demand and political reality / edited by C. A. J. Coady, Ned Dobos, Sagar Sanyal.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarian intervention--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Humanitarian intervention.
- Responsibility to protect (International law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Ethical demand and political reality
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Ten essays critique the practice of armed humanitarian intervention, whereby one state sends its armed forces into another to protect citizens against major human rights abuses. The contributors examine a range of concerns, for instance about potential adverse effects and about ulterior motives.
- Contents:
- Morality, reality, and humanitarian intervention: an introduction to the debate / C. A. J. Coady
- 1. Complicating the moral case of responsibility to protect: Kosovo and Libya / Stepehn Zunes
- 2. Why sovereignty matters despite injustice: the ethics of intervention / Richard W. Miller
- 3. Women and humanitarian intervention / Janna Thompson
- 4. Humanitarian intervention and non-ideal theory / Ramon Das
- 5. The leeriness objection to the responsibility to protect / Marco Meyer
- 6. On the uses and 'abuses' of responsibility to protect / Ned Dobos
- 7. Scrutinizing intentions / Chrisantha Hermanson
- 8. 'Words lying on the table'? norm contestation and the diminution of the responsibility to protect / Aidan Hehir
- 9. Responsibility to protect, polarity, and society: R2P's political realities in the international order / Robert W. Murray and Tom Keating
- 10. Closing the R2P chapter: opening a dissident current within philosophy of war / Sagar Sanyal.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-254214-1
- 0-19-185064-0
- 0-19-254213-3
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