Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality

233 Pages·2018·1.488 MB·English

by  C. A. J. Coady (editor), Ned Dobos (editor), Sagar Sanyal (editor)

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Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention
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Challenges for
Humanitarian
Intervention
Ethical Demand and Political Reality
EDITED BY
C. A. J. Coady, Ned Dobos,
and Sagar Sanyal
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Contents
ListofContributors vii
Morality,Reality,andHumanitarianIntervention:An
IntroductiontotheDebate 1
C.A.J.Coady
1. ComplicatingtheMoralCaseofResponsibilitytoProtect:Kosovo
andLibya 15
StephenZunes
2. WhySovereigntyMattersDespiteInjustice:TheEthicsof
Intervention 38
RichardW.Miller
3. WomenandHumanitarianIntervention 59
JannaThompson
4. HumanitarianInterventionandNon-IdealTheory 75
RamonDas
5. TheLeerinessObjectiontotheResponsibilitytoProtect 100
MarcoMeyer
6. OntheUsesand‘Abuses’ofResponsibilitytoProtect 123
NedDobos
7. ScrutinizingIntentions 139
ChrisanthaHermanson
8. ‘WordsLyingontheTable’?NormContestationand
theDiminutionoftheResponsibilitytoProtect 165
AidanHehir
9. ResponsibilitytoProtect,Polarity,andSociety:R2P’sPolitical
RealitiesintheInternationalOrder 183
RobertW.MurrayandTomKeating
10. ClosingtheR2PChapter:OpeningaDissidentCurrentwithin
PhilosophyofWar 200
SagarSanyal
NameIndex 219
GeneralIndex 221
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List of Contributors
C. A. J. COADY,UniversityofMelbourne
RAMON DAS,VictoriaUniversityofWellington
NED DOBOS,UniversityofNewSouthWales,Canberra
AIDAN HEHIR,UniversityofWestminster
CHRISANTHA HERMANSON,BlueRidgeSchool,Virginia
TOM KEATING,UniversityofAlberta
MARCO MEYER,UniversityofCambridgeandUniversityofGroningen
RICHARD W. MILLER,CornellUniversity
ROBERT W. MURRAY,FrontierCentreforPublicPolicyandtheUniversity
ofAlberta
SAGAR SANYAL,UniversityofMelbourne
JANNA THOMPSON,LaTrobeUniversity
STEPHEN ZUNES,UniversityofSanFrancisco
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Morality, Reality, and
Humanitarian Intervention
An Introduction to the Debate
C. A. J. Coady
Therearetwoprofoundpointsofdeparturefordiscussionsofthemoralevaluation
of humanitarian intervention and its partial echo in international law, the
ResponsibilitytoProtect.Thefirstisthedistressinglymassivedamagesometimes
inflicted on people by their own governments (or other politically powerful and
unhinderedagents),andthesecondconcernstheappallingdisastersandravagesof
war.Thefirstcriesouttooutsidersforactiontopreventordiscontinuethehorror
(which may itself involve forms of warfare, such as civil war), but the second
cautionsagainstthoseformsofinterventionorprotectionthatthemselvesthreaten
to replace the horror with something as or even more damaging. The tension
between these two instincts has been a significant issue in many violent conflicts
inverydifferentpartsoftheworldinthelastpartofthetwentiethcenturyandinto
thepresentday,and,ofcourse,hasearlierhistoricalprecedents.
This tension continues in comment and discussion of the Responsibility to
ProtectdoctrinefirmlyproclaimedbytheUnitedNationsin2005,and,ofcourse,
the document itself stands as a sincere morally motivated response not only to
variousoutragesandmassacresthatshockedtheconscienceofsomany,butalso
to inaction and even perceived indifference by outsiders to those episodes of
extensive inflicted suffering on innocent people. That doctrine, to be sure, is by
no means exclusively concerned with military interventions, indeed its primary
stressisuponearlypreventativemeasuresanddiplomaticandothernon-violent
measures within the scope of the responsibilities it proclaims. There are some
admirable and some contentious features of these other responsibilities, but
the R2P doctrine does include the military intervention option (though for a