Humanitarian Imperialism

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 21-26

  Nardin, Terry ^a  

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EID: 34248033365     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2005.tb00497.x     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Fernando R. Tesón, “Ending Tyranny in Iraq,” Ethics & International Affairs 19, no. 2 (2005), pp. 1–20. All in-text citation references are to this article.
2. Tesón suggests that humanitarian intervention is called for in cases of “severe” tyranny, which he defines as involving past or present atrocities as well as “pervasive and serious forms of oppression” (p. 15). This still puts the emphasis on the character of the regime, of which its crimes are evidence, not on rescuing the victims of those crimes.
3. The traditional understanding underlies the argument of Ken Roth's “War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention,” Human Rights Watch World Report 2004; available at hrw.org/wr2k4/3.htm.
4. For an analysis of the president's national security strategy that makes these and other relevant points, see David C. Hendrickson, “Preserving the Imbalance of Power,” Ethics & International Affairs 17, no. 1 (2003), pp. 157–62.
5. Jedediah Purdy considers these parallels in “Liberal Empire: Assessing the Arguments,” Ethics & International Affairs 17, no. 2 (2003), pp. 35–47.
6. “The National Security Strategy of the United States of America” (September 2002); available at www.white house.gov/nsc/nss.pdf.