Representativeness and humanitarian intervention

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 569-587

  Pattison, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053449442     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2007.00399.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. The most prominent example of this approach is the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), The Responsibility to Protect (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001).
2. Other notable examples include Tom Farer, "Cosmopolitan Humanitarian Intervention: A Five-Part Test", International Relations 19, no. 2(2005):211-20
3. and Nicholas Wheeler, Saving Strangers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
4. For a rejection of the moral importance of legal authority, see my "Humanitarian Intervention and International Law: The Moral Significance of an Intervener's Legal Status", Critical Review of International, Social and Political Philosophy 10, no. 3(2007):301-19.
5. That said, these issues (especially external representativeness) have received some treatment. The most constructive discussions are Allen Buchanan, "The Internal Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention", The Journal of Political Philosophy 7, no. 1(1999):71-87;
6. Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 98-105;
7. Allen Buchanan, "Institutionalizing the Just War", Philosophy and Public Affairs 34, no. 1(2006):27;
8. Jacques De Lisle, "Humanitarian Intervention: Legality, Morality, and the Good Samaritan", Orbis 45, no. 4(2001):552;
9. ICISS, Responsibility to Protect, 36;
10. David Luban, "Intervention and Civilization: Some Unhappy Lessons of the Kosovo War", in Global Justice and Transnational Politics: Essays on the Moral and Political Challenges of Globalization, ed. Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin (London: MIT Press, 2002), 84-86;
11. Fernando Tesón, Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality, 2nd ed. (New York: Transnational Publishers, 1997), 126-29;
12. and Fernando Tesón, "The Liberal Case for Humanitarian Intervention", in Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Aspects, ed. J. L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 105-7.
13. Hanna Pitkin, The Concept of Representation (London: University of California Press, 1967).
14. See Nicholas Wheeler and Tim Dunne, "East Timor and the New Humanitarian Interventionism", International Affairs 77, no. 4(2001):805-27.
15. Buchanan, "Internal Legitimacy", 71-87.
16. See Wheeler and Dunne, "East Timor", 805-27.
17. Alex De Waal, Who Fights? Who Cares? War and Humanitarian Action in Africa (Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2000), 81.
18. Robert Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics (London: Yale University Press, 1989), 89.
19. Thomas Christiano, The Rule of the Many: Fundamental Issues in Democratic Theory (Oxford: Westview Press, 1996), 25.
20. International Committee of the Red Cross (in conjunction with Greenberg Research, Inc.), The People on War: ICRC Worldwide Consultation on the Rules of War (Geneva: ICRC, 2000), 54, from http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/ html/p0758 (accessed April 4, 2006).
21. Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (Oxford: Polity Press, 1999), 121.
22. De Lisle, "Humanitarian Intervention", 552.
23. See, for instance, Michael Walzer, "The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics", Philosophy and Public Affairs 9, no. 3(1980):209-29.
24. Tesón, "The Liberal Case", 107.
25. See Theodora-Ismene Gizeles and Kristin Kosek, "Why Humanitarian Interventions Succeed or Fail: The Role of Local Participation", Cooperation and Conflict 40, no. 4(2005):363-83.
26. Kaldor, New and Old Wars, 126.
27. Jarat Chopra and Tanja Hohe, "Participatory Intervention", Global Governance 10, no. 3(2004):291.
28. Gizeles and Kosek, "Why Humanitarian Interventions Succeed or Fail", 363-83.
29. Tesón, Humanitarian Intervention, 126.
30. Albert Weale, Democracy (New York: St Martin's Press, 1999).
31. See, for instance, Walzer, "The Moral Standing of States", 209-29.
32. One example of this was the response by a number of Somalis to the proposal to send Kenyan, Ethiopian, and Djiboutian peacekeepers to Somalia in 2005. Their opposition to intervention by their neighbors (especially Ethiopian) was so great that a brawl erupted in the Somali parliament and Somali warlords claimed they would target Ethiopian peacekeepers. BBC, "Peacekeepers for Somalia Approved", March 18, 2005, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/ africa/4363021.stm (accessed June 27, 2006).