Ethics and foreign intervention / edited by Deen K. Chatterjee, Don E. Scheid.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Deen K. Chatterjee and Don E. Scheid -- Pt. I. The conceptual and normative terrain. -- Intervention: should it go on, can it go on? / Stanley Hoffmann ; Selective humanitarianism: in defense of inconsistency / Chris Brown -- Pt. II. Just-war perspectives and limits. -- Reciprocity, stability, and intervention: the ethics of disequilibrium / Michael Blake ; From jus ad bellum to jus ad pacem: re-thinking just-war criteria for the use of military force for humanitarian ends / George R. Lucas, Jr. ; Bombing to rescue?: NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia / Henry Shue ; Burdens of collective liability / Erin Kelly -- Pt. III. Secession and international law. -- The ethics of intervention in self-determination struggles / Tom J. Farer ; Seccession, humanitarian intervention, and the normative significance of political boundaries / Christine Chwaszcza ; Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian intervention / Allen Buchanan -- Pt. IV. The critique of interventionism. -- Respectable oppressors, hypocritical liberators: morality, intervention, and reality / Richard W. Miller -- Violence against power: critical thoughts on military intervention / Iris Marion Young -- War for humanity: a critique / C.A.J. Coady.

This collection of original essays on the ethical and legal implications of humanitarian military intervention presents a variety of normative perspectives. It considers topics such as the just-war theory and its limits, secession and international law, and new approaches toward the moral adequacy of intervention. Written by well-known contemporary philosophers, the essays form a challenging and timely volume that will interest political philosophers and theorists, readers in law and international relations, and anyone concerned with the moral dimensions of international affairs. The first book of its kind to deal with the normative implications of humanitarian military intervention. All the essays are original contributions by leading authors, containing their latest ideas on this important topic. A challenging and timely volume which will appeal to anyone interested in the moral dimensions of international affairs