Humanitarian Intervention and the Distribution of Sovereignty in International Law

Ethics and International Affairs 22 (4):369-393 (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Legal debates about humanitarian intervention tend to assume that its legitimacy is irrelevant to its legality, while political theorists often assume the inverse. This paper defends an alternative account, which sees the legality and legitimacy of humanitarian intervention as intertwined.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1111/j.1747-7093.2008.00172.x

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 100,937

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Ecological Intervention: Prospects and Limits.Robyn Eckersley - 2007 - Ethics and International Affairs 21 (3):293-316.
Legitimacy, humanitarian intervention, and international institutions.Miles Kahler - 2011 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 10 (1):20-45.
Taking Consequences Seriously: Objections to Humanitarian Intervention.Jennifer M. Welsh - 2006 - In Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations. Oxford University Press.
Is Humanitarian Intervention Legal? The Rule of Law in an Incoherent World.Ian Hurd - 2011 - Ethics and International Affairs 25 (3):293-313.
Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism.Jean L. Cohen - 2012 - Cambridge University Press.
Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry Into Law and Morality.Fernando R. Tesón - 2005 - Brill Nijhoff.
Force and Legitimacy in World Politics.David Armstrong, Theo Farrell & Bice Maiguashca (eds.) - 2005 - Cambridge University Press.
Motives, outcomes, intent and the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention.Alex J. Bellamy - 2004 - Journal of Military Ethics 3 (3):216-232.
The Humanitarian Responsibilities of Sovereignty: Explaining the Development of a New Norm of Military Humanitarian Intervention for Humanitarian Purposes in International Society.Nicholas J. Wheeler - 2006 - In Jennifer M. Welsh (ed.), Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations. Oxford University Press.
The Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention.Terry Nardin - 2002 - Ethics and International Affairs 16 (1):57-70.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
128 (#171,081)

6 months
8 (#580,966)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Humanitarian disintervention.Shmuel Nili - 2011 - Journal of Global Ethics 7 (1):33 - 46.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references