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Apr 1, 2013 · Abstract. For Michael Walzer, arguing about war is political rather than philosophical, a matter of persuasion rather than proof. His discussion of humanitarian intervention since the publication of Just and Unjust Wars tracks political events and debates, including the transformation of a debate focused on the right to intervene into one about situations, like those in Rwanda and Libya, in ...
- Terry Nardin
- 2013
Jan 9, 2020 · Humanitarian interventions have often been employed to promote the intervener’s political and economic interests. Given the issues around intervention’s morality, this article explores Michael Walzer’s humanitarian intervention theory in order to unravel the practical difficulties of legitimating humanitarian interventions in multisided conflicts. After exploring Walzer’s arguments as ...
- Miguel Paradela-López, Alexandra Jima-González
- 2020
In discussing these issues, Walzer deepens our understanding of humanitarian intervention by treating it both as an aspect of just war theory and as a historic practice able to reconcile the rights of states and persons in the changing circumstances of political choice.
Apr 7, 2013 · 5 The Limits of Protection. Prevention is just one of the issues that arise as soon as the debate on humanitarian. intervention is reframed from a debate about the right of states to inter vene to ...
Walzer, Michael. Michael Walzer may be understood as making two major contributions to global justice debates. On the one hand, he contributes to just war theory and the theory of humanitarian intervention, the idea that force in international politics should be justified by appeal to human rights. On the other hand, he advances the theory of ...
Apr 3, 2020 · Humanitarian interventions have often been employed to promote the intervener’s political and economic interests. Given the issues around intervention’s morality, this article explores Michael ...
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Jul 4, 2015 · Michael Walzer argues that the just cause for humanitarian intervention is not met if there are only “ordinary” levels of human rights abuses within a state because he believes that respecting the right to collective self-determination is more morally important than protecting other individual rights. Several prominent critics of Walzer advocate for a more permissive account of a just ...
