The Question of Intervention
John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
1st Edition
Published on 28. January 2015
288 pages
978-0-300-21078-1 (ISBN)
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The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill's famous 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" as his starting point, international relations scholar Michael W. Doyle addresses the thorny issue of when a state's sovereignty should be respected and when it should be overridden or disregarded by other states in the name of humanitarian protection, national self-determination, or national security. In this time of complex social and political interplay and increasingly sophisticated and deadly weaponry, Doyle reinvigorates Mill's principles for a new era while assessing the new United Nations doctrine of responsibility to protect. In the twenty-first century, intervention can take many forms: military and economic, unilateral and multilateral. Doyle's thought-provoking argument examines essential moral and legal questions underlying significant American foreign policy dilemmas of recent years, including Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- ONE: Nonintervention
- TWO: Exceptions That Override
- THREE: Exceptions That Disregard
- FOUR: Libya, the "Responsibility to Protect," and the New Moral Minimum
- FIVE: Postbellum Peacebuilding
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX ONE: John Stuart Mill's "A Few Words on Non-Intervention"
- APPENDIX TWO: List of Interventions, 1815-2003 Michael Doyle and Camille Strauss-Kahn
- Index
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