Humanitarian intervention: A conflict of traditions

Humanitarian Intervention

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 58-83

  Coates, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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References (56)

1. Mervyn Frost, "The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention," in Ethicsand Foreign Policy, ed. Karen E. Smith and Margot Light (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 52.
2. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with HistoricalIllustrations, 3rd ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
3. David Rodin, War and Self-Defense (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 195.
4. Michael Oakeshott, "Introduction to Leviathan," in Hobbes on Civil Association, ed. Oakeshott (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975), 7.
5. Brian Orend, War and International Justice (Waterloo, Ontario: WilfredLaurier University Press, 2000), 76.
6. Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars, xx.
7. J. Bryan Hehir, "Expanding Military Intervention: Promise orPeril?" Social Research 62, no. 1 (1995): 43.
8. See also Hehir, "Intervention: From Theories to Cases," Ethics and International Affairs 9 (1995): 1-13.
9. C. A. J. Coady, "The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention," Peaceworks, no. 45 (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 2002).
10. Terry Nardin, "The Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention," Ethics and International Affairs 16, no. 1 (2002): 70.
11. Joseph Boyle, "Traditional Just War Theory and HumanitarianIntervention," this volume, chap. 1, 31.
12. Rodin, War and Self-Defense, 194.
13. Janna Thompson, Justice and World Order (London: Routledge, 1992), 17.
14. For further illustration, see Robert L. Holmes, On War and Morality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)
15. and Richard Norman, Ethics, Killing and War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
16. Rodin, War and Self-Defense, 199.
17. James Turner Johnson's pioneering work, for example, stresses "the close relation between the thought of Vitoria and Grotius."
18. See James Turner Johnson, Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), 260, 208, 210, 255.
19. ElsewhereJohnson writes that "the line from medieval just war theory tomodern international law as described by Grotius and later writers passesimportantly through Vitoria."
20. The emphasis throughout is on the continuityof the just war tradition and on the convergence of various lines ofdevelopment. James Turner Johnson, "Francisco de Vitoria," in The BlackwellEncyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. David Miller (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 542.
21. See also his entry on "just war," 257-59.
22. Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1999), 89.
23. In like manner, Brian Midgely argues that "[Grotius's] individualisticformulations represent a grave emasculation of the traditional doctrine [of natural law]."
24. E. B. Midgely, The Natural Law Tradition and theTheory of International Relations (London: Paul Elek, 1975), 159.
25. Terry Nardin, "The Emergence of International Law," in InternationalRelations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the FirstWorld War, ed. Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, and Nicholas Rengger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 315.
26. Francisco de Vitoria, Political Writings, ed. Anthony Pagden andJeremy Lawrance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 250.
27. Nardin, "Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention," 62.
28. See Charles R. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), vii;
29. R. J. Vincent, HumanRights and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), chap. 7;
30. Joseph S. Nye, Understanding International Conflicts (NewYork: Longman, 1997), 19-24;
31. Nigel Dower, World Ethics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), 17-20;
32. and Brian Barry, "Statism andNationalism: A Cosmopolitan Critique," in Global Justice, NOMOS XLI, ed. Ian Shapiro and Lea Brilmayer (New York: New York University Press, 1999).
33. Vincent, Human Rights and International Relations, 118.
34. Chris Brown recognizes this when he observes that "medievalthought on the problems of 'international' relations is, for the most part, neither cosmopolitan nor communitarian." Chris Brown, InternationalRelations Theory (London: Harvester, 1992), 27.
35. Barry, "Statism and Nationalism," 35.
36. Brian Barry, "International Society from a Cosmopolitan Perspective," in International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, ed. David R. Mapeland Terry Nardin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), 145.
37. Charles Beitz, "Social and Cosmopolitan Liberalism" InternationalAffairs 75, no. 3 (1999): 519.
38. Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 148 and 198.
39. Danilo Zolo, Cosmopolis (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997), 15.
40. Seealso Zolo, Invoking Humanity (London: New York: Continuum, 2002).
41. See Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Interventionin International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
42. Pratap Mehta, "From State Sovereignty to Human Security (viaInstitutions?)," this volume, chap. 10.
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44. Michael Oakeshott, "The Tower of Babel," in Rationalism in Politicsand Other Essays, 2nd ed., ed. Timothy Fuller (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1991), 468.
45. See Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War (London: Vintage, 2001)
46. and Christopher Coker, Humane Warfare (London: Routledge, 2001).
47. Ignatieff, Virtual War, 179s.
48. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. George Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 36 and 54.
49. See also Schmitt, "The Legal World Revolution," Telos 72 (Summer 1987).
50. Ignatieff, Virtual War, 214-15.
51. For further discussion, see A. J. Coates, The Ethics of War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), chap. 6.
52. Jean Bethke Elshtain, "Just War and Humanitarian Intervention," Ideas from the National Humanities Center 8, no. 2 (2001): 5.
53. Fred Dallmayr, "Cosmopolitanism: Moral and Political," PoliticalTheory 31, no. 3 (2003): 432.
54. Judith Andre, "Humility," in Ethics in Practice, 2nd ed., ed. HughLaFollette (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), 279.
55. D. A. Horner, "What It Takes to Be Great: Aristotle and Aquinason Magnanimity," Faith and Philosophy 15, no. 4 (1998): 434.
56. Quoted in Keys, "Aquinas," 55.