Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality PDF
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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention Ethical Demand and Political Reality EDITED BY C. A. J. Coady, Ned Dobos, and Sagar Sanyal 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi 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 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi 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 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,24/4/2018,SPi 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
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