Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions

Published by De Gruyter 2004

Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions

Edited by: Georg Meggle

Volume 7 in the series Practical Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110327731

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
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I. Basic Issues
The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention Michael Walzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Collective Responsibility and Humanitarian Armed Intervention Seumas Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Reconstructing Pacifism. Different Ways of Looking at Reality Olaf L. Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
How Far Shall We Go Humanitarian Interventions? Uwe Czaniera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The Dilemmatic Structure of Humanitarian Interventions Martin Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Humanitarian Interventions and Other Duties to Humanitarian Aid Walter Pfannkuche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Help, Intervention and Involvement Ralf Stoecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Saving Lives in Nationalist Conflicts: A Few Moral Hazards Aleksandar Pavković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Humanitarian Intervention Miroslav Prokopijevic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
II. International Ethics and Law
Humanitarian Interventions are Wrong Rüdiger Bittner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Humanitarian Intervention: Legal and Moral Arguments Thomas Mertens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Principles of non-UN Humanitarian Intervention Rudolf Schüssler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Early non-Military External Interventions. A Plea for a United Nations Intervention Council (UNIC) Reiner Steinweg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Humanitarian Intervention: An Individual Right or a State Right? Véronique Zanetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
III. Kosova / Kosovo The Moral Combat
On the Legitimacy of NATO’s Kosovo Intervention Ulrich Steinvorth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
NATO-Morality and the Kosovo-War An Ethical Commentary – ex post Georg Meggle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
“Humanitarian Intervention”: Media, Ethics and Law in the Kosovo War Hajo Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Bombing Yugoslavia: Several Readings Text, Supertext, Subtext, Deep Text, Context – and a Pretext (with a Posttext) Johan Galtung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
The Example of Kosovo: Didactics against Humanitarian Interventionism Dieter S. Lutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 382
Keywords: Ethik; Politische Philosophie

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Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110327731

Hardcover

Published: September 15, 2004
ISBN: 9783110327403