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Title Ethics of humanitarian interventions / Georg Meggle (ed.)
Published Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag ; Piscataway, NJ : [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (382 pages)
Series Practical philosophy ; Bd. 7
Practical philosophy ; Bd. 7.
Contents The argument about humanitarian intervention / Michael Walzer -- Collective responsibility and humanitarian armed intervention / Seumas Miller -- Reconstructing pacifism : different ways of looking at reality / Olaf F. Müller -- How far shall we go in humanitarian interventions? / Uwe Czaniera -- The dilemmatic structure of humanitarian interventions / Martin Frank -- Humanitarian interventions and other duties to humanitarian aid / Walter Pfannkuche -- Help, intervention and involvement / Ralf Stoecker -- Saving lives in nationalist conflicts : a few moral hazards / Aleksandar Pavković -- Humanitarian intervention / Miroslav Prokopijevic -- Humanitarian interventions are wrong / Rüdiger Bittner -- Humanitarian intervention : legal and moral arguments / Thomas Mertens -- Principles of non-UN humanitarian intervention / Rudolf Schüssler -- Early non-military external interventions : a plea for a United Nations Intervention Council (UNIC) / Reiner Steinweg -- Humanitarian intervention : an individual right or a state right? / Veronique Zanetti -- On the legitimacy of NATO's Kosovo intervention / Ulrich Steinvorth -- NATO-morality and the Kosovo-war : an ethical commentary, ex post / Georg Meggle -- "Humanitarian intervention" : media, ethics and law in the Kosovo war / Hajo Schmidt -- Bombing Yugoslavia : several readings / Johan Galtung -- The example of Kosovo : didactics against humanitarian intervention / Dieter S. Lutz
Summary 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 exactl
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2013)
Papers from a conference held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung) at the University of Bielefeld, Jan. 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
Operation Allied Force, 1999 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Ethics
Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects
Kosovo-Krieg
Humanitäre Intervention
Bielefeld <2002>
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Kongress.
Form Electronic book
Author Meggle, Georg.
ISBN 9783110327731
3110327732
9783937202587
3937202587
9783110327403
3110327406