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This book considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently. The doctrine of the responsibility to protect asserts that when a state is failing to uphold its citizens' human rights, the international community has a responsibility to protect these citizens, including by undertaking humanitarian intervention. It is unclear, however, which particular agent should be tasked with this responsibility. Should we prefer intervention by the UN, NATO, a regional or subregional organization (such as the African Union), a state, a group of states, or someone else? This book answers this question by, first, determining which qualities of interveners are morally significant and, second, assessing the relative importance of these qualities. For instance, is it important that an intervener have a humanitarian motive? Should an intervener be welcomed by those it is trying to save? How important is it that an intervener will be effective and what does this mean in practice? The book then considers the more empirical question of whether (and to what extent) the current interveners actually possess these qualities, and therefore should intervene. For instance, how effective can we expect UN action to be in the future? Is NATO likely to use humanitarian means? Overall, it develops a particular normative conception of legitimacy for humanitarian intervention. It uses this conception of legitimacy to assess not only current interveners, but also the desirability of potential reforms to the mechanisms and agents of humanitarian intervention.
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This book is extremely well written, accessible, and interesting. It looks at the philosophical factors of who should intervene in response to humanitarian crisis including just war theory, motives, consequentalism, international law, and representativeness. For example is a humanitarian motive enough for a state to intervene in response to genocide when it's citizens do not want the intervention to take place? Pattison's book also looks at the current interveners, which are legitimate, and makes suggestions for the future.
I would highly recommend this book to scholars of international relations, just war theory, political philosophy, international law, politics, philosophy, humanitarianism, and war.
I would highly recommend this book to scholars of international relations, just war theory, political philosophy, international law, politics, philosophy, humanitarianism, and war.
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