Humanitarian Intervention, Consent, and Proportionality

Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  McMahan, Jeff ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consent; Humanitarian intervention; Iraq war; Kosovo war; Michael walzer; National selfdetermination; Proportionality; Rwanda genocide; Sovereignty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920627431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325195.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

1. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, in Marshall Cohen, ed., The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill: Ethical, Political, and Religious (New York: Modern Library, 1961), p. 197.
2. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars (New York: Basic Books, 1977), p. 89.
3. Michael Walzer, "The Moral Standing of States," in International Ethics, Charles R. Beitz et al., eds. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985): pp. 217-37, p. 101.
4. Graham Greene, The Comedians (New York: Viking Press, 1966), p. 222.
5. see Jeff McMahan, "Intervention and Collective Self-Determination," Ethics and International Affairs 10 (1996): 1-24.
6. see Christopher Finlay, "Legitimacy and Non-State Political Violence," Journal of Political Philosophy (forthcoming).
7. Andrew Altman and Christopher Heath Wellman, "From Humanitarian Intervention to Assassination: Human Rights and Political Violence," Ethics 118 (2008): 228-57.
8. Walzer, "The Moral Standing of States," P. 232.
9. Kok-Chor Tan, "The Duty to Protect," in Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams, eds., Humanitarian Intervention: NOMOS XLVII (New York: New York University Press, 2006), pp. 84-116.
10. Cited in David Luban, "Intervention and Civilization: Some Unhappy Lessons of the Kosovo War," in Pablo de Greiff and Ciaran Cronin, eds., Global Justice and Transnational Politics: Essays on the Moral and Political Challenges of Globalization (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), pp. 79-115, 108.
11. see Jeff McMahan, Killing in War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009), sections 1.3 and 5.3.
12. The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 244-45.