The ethics of armed humanitarian intervention /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:xiii, 282 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Just war doctrine.
Intervention (International law)
Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Intervention (International law)
Just war doctrine.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10073172
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Other authors / contributors:Scheid, Don E., editor.
ISBN:9781107036369 (hardback : alk. paper)
1107036364 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781107610675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1107610672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Intervention and Debate
  • 1. Introduction to armed humanitarian intervention
  • 2. Revisiting armed humanitarian intervention: a 25-year retrospective
  • 3. The responsibility to protect and the war in Libya
  • Part II. Moral Perspectives
  • 4. The moral basis of humanitarian intervention revisited
  • 5. All or nothing: are there any 'merely permissible' humanitarian interventions?
  • 6. Judging armed humanitarian intervention
  • 7. Bombing the beneficiaries: the distribution of the costs of the responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention
  • Part III. Ideas and Reconsiderations
  • 8. The costs of war: justice, liability, and the pottery barn rule
  • 9. Humanitarian intervention and the problem of abuse after Libya
  • 10. The responsibility to protect and the problem of regime change
  • 11. Law, ethics, and the responsibility to protect
  • 12. Responsibility to protect and the language of crimes: collective action and individual culpability
  • 13. Post-intervention: permissions and prohibitions
  • 14. Rethinking responsibility to protect: the case for human sovereignty