ISBN : 9780198812852
Ten new essays critique the practice armed humanitarian intervention, and the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine that advocates its use under certain circumstances. The contributors investigate the causes and consequences, as well as the uses and abuses, of armed humanitarian intervention. One enduring concern is that such interventions are liable to be employed as a foreign policy instrument by powerful states pursuing geo-political interests. Some of the chapters interrogate how the presence of ulterior motives impact on the moral credentials of armed humanitarian intervention. Others shine a light on the potential adverse effects of such interventions, even where they are motivated primarily by humanitarian concern. The volume also tracks the evolution of the R2P norm, and draws attention to how it has evolved, for better or for worse, since UN member states unanimously accepted it over a decade ago. In some respects the norm has been distorted to yield prescriptions, and to impos
C. A. J. Coady: Morality, Reality and Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction to the Debate
1 Stephen Zunes: Complicating the Moral Case of Responsibility to Protect: Kosovo and Libya
2 Richard W. Miller: Why Sovereignty Matters Despite Injustice: the Ethics of Intervention
3 Janna Thompson: Women and Humanitarian Intervention
4 Ramon Das: Humanitarian Intervention and Non-Ideal Theory
5 Marco Meyer: The Leeriness Objection to the Responsibility to Protect
6 Ned Dobos: On the Uses and Abuses of R2P
7 Chrisantha Hermanson: Scrutinizing Intentions
8 Aidan Hehir: Words lying on the table? Norm Contestation and the Diminution of the Responsibility to Protect
9 Robert W. Murray and Tom Keating: Responsibility to Protect, Polarity and Society: R2P's Political Realities in the International Order
10 Sagar Sanyal: Closing the R2P Chapter
Opening a Dissident Current within Philosophy of War