Humanitarian Intervention: An Overview of the Ethical Issues

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 12, Issue , 1998, Pages 63-79

  Smith, Michael J ^a  

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EID: 84924139187     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.1998.tb00038.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Joel H. Rosenthal, ed., Ethics and International Affairs: A Reader (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1995), introduction.
2. Samuel P. Huntington, “New Contingencies, Old Roles,” Joint Forces Quarterly, no. 2 (autumn 1992), p. 338.
3. See Joseph S. Nye, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 1990), or, much earlier
4. Stanley Hoffmann, “Notes on the Elusiveness of Modem Power,” International Journal 30 (spring 1975), pp. 183–206.
5. An exhaustive analysis of such conflicts can be found in Ted Robert Gurr, Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflicts (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1993).
6. An alarmist, journalistic account is offered by Robert D. Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century (New York: Random House, 1996).
7. Thomas M. Franck, “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance,” American Journal of International Law 86 (January 1992), pp. 46–91.
8. For an excellent summary of these operations, see the appendix prepared by Robert C. Johansen and Kurt Mills in Stanley Hoffmann, The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), pp. 101–15.
9. Tom J. Farer, “A Paradigm of Legitimate Intervention,” in Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts, edited by Lori Fisler Damrosch (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993), p. 341.
10. Michael Walzer, “The Politics of Rescue,” Dissent (winter 1995), p. 41.
11. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars (New York: Basic Books, 1977), ch. 6.
12. Farer, “A Paradigm of Legitimate Intervention,” pp. 320, 330. On the “founding fathers,”
13. see J. L. Brierly, The Law of Nations, 6th edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 403 ff.
14. Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations, edited by Richard B. Lillich (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973).
15. Farer, “A Paradigm of Legitimate Intervention,” p. 330.
16. David Rieff, “The Lessons of Bosnia: Morality and Power,” World Policy Journal (spring 1995), pp. 76–88.
17. Emst B. Haas, Global Evangelism Rides Again, Institute of International Studies Policy Paper, no. 5 (Berkeley: University of California, 1978).
18. Quoted in the New York Times, November 28, 1995, p. A15.
19. Rieff, “The Lessons of Bosnia.”
20. Hoffmann, “Notes on the Elusiveness of Modem Power”
21. Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).
22. Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
23. Michael J. Smith, “Ethics and Intervention,” Ethics and International Affairs 3 (1989).
24. Michael J. Smith, Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987).
25. See Arnold Wolfers, “Statesmanship and Moral Choice,” in his Discord and Collaboration (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1962).
26. Stanley Hoffmann, “Politics and Ethics of Military Intervention,” Survival 37 (winter 1995–1996), pp. 29–51
27. Wolfers, “Statesmanship and Moral Choice.”
28. Amir Pasic, “Ethics and Reality: The Hard Case of Bosnia,” paper presented at the International Studies Association meeting, San Diego, Calif., April 1996.
29. Michael Walzer, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).
30. Judith N. Shklar, “The Liberalism of Fear,” in Liberalism and the Moral Life, edited by Nancy Rosenblum (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 21–38.
31. Pierre Laberge, “Humanitarian Intervention: Three Ethical Positions,” Ethics and International Affairs 9 (1995).
32. Franck, “The Emerging Right to Democratic Self-Governance.”
33. Hoffmann, “Politics and Ethics of Military Intervention,” pp. 34–46.
34. Franck, “The Emerging Right to Democratic Self-Governance.”
35. President Clinton quoted in the New York Times, November 28, 1995, p. A12.
36. See Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars, pp. 102–10.