Meggle Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032773-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 382 Seiten

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Humanitarian Interventions - that sounds nice; much nicer than wars, battles and use of military force. Foremost, the phrase makes you think of the delivery of sanitary goods, medication, of soup-kitchens.
Here we are not supposed to think of interventions of this kind; we have to have humanitarian interventions in mind which are humanitarian intervention-wars.

(I) At exactly what point is the use of military force a humanitarian intervention? What is the humanitarian aspect of those interventions? Their occasion? Their motive? Their alleged as well as their actual consequences?
(II) At exactly what point are humanitarian intervention-wars morally justifiable? Are they justifiable even if they are wars of aggression breaching international law?
And finally:
(III) Was the war which was presented to us as the paradigmatic example of a humanitarian-intervention-war, that is: the war in Kosovo in the spring of 1999 (with over 37,000 bombing missions), really justifiable as a humanitarian intervention? Many of us wanted to believe so at the time. Does our ex ante judgement hold today in an ex post reflection? And which lessons for the future should we learn from the success or failure of this humanitarian war?

These are the questions proposed in this book; therefore, it is concerned with problems of semantics (part I), problems of moral assessment (part II) and with the moral, legal and political conclusions we draw from our experiences with the war in Kosovo, our primary example of a humanitarian intervention (part III).

International experts in the areas of philosophy, international law, sociology and peace studies debated these questions vigorously for several days. This is the resulting volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meggle, Georg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title;1
2;CONTENTS;7
3;Preface;9
4;ABSTRACTS;10
5;I Basic Issues;22
5.1;MICHAEL WALZER The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention;23
5.2;SEUMAS MILLER Collective Responsibility and Humanitarian Armed Intervention;39
5.3;OLAF L. MÜLLER Reconstructing Pacifism. Different Ways of Looking at Reality;58
5.4;UWE CZANIERA How Far Shall We Go Humanitarian Interventions?;83
5.5;MARTIN FRANK The Dilemmatic Structure of Humanitarian Interventions;99
5.6;WALTER PFANNKUCHE Humanitarian Interventions and Other Duties to Humanitarian Aid1;116
5.7;RALF STOECKER Help, Intervention and Involvement;131
5.8;ALEKSANDAR PAVKOVIC

Saving Lives in Nationalist Conflicts:

A Few Moral Hazards1;163
5.9;MIROSLAV PROKOPIJEVIC Humanitarian Intervention;191
6;II International Ethics and Law;207
6.1;RÜDIGER BITTNER Humanitarian Interventions are Wrong;209
6.2;THOMAS MERTENS Humanitarian Intervention: Legal and Moral Arguments;217
6.3;RUDOLF SCHÜSSLER Principles of non-UN Humanitarian Intervention;235
6.4;REINER STEINWEG Early non-Military External Interventions. A Plea for a United Nations Intervention Council (UNIC);252
6.5;VÉRONIQUE ZANETTI Humanitarian Intervention: An Individual Right or a State Right?;265
7;III Kosova / Kosovo The Moral Combat;279
7.1;ULRICH STEINVORTH* On the Legitimacy of NATO’s Kosovo Intervention;281
7.2;GEORG MEGGLE NATO-Morality and the Kosovo-War An Ethical Commentary – ex post;295
7.3;HAJO SCHMIDT “Humanitarian Intervention”: Media, Ethics and Law in the Kosovo War;321
7.4;JOHAN GALTUNG Bombing Yugoslavia: Several Readings Text, Supertext, Subtext, Deep Text, Context – and a Pretext (with a Posttext);337
7.5;DIETER S. LUTZ The Example of Kosovo: Didactics against Humanitarian Interventionism;360
8;CONTRIBUTORS;382