Just and unjust military intervention : European thinkers from Vitoria to Mill / edited by Stefano Recchia and Jennifer M. Welsh.
Contributor(s): Recchia, Stefano [editor.] | Welsh, Jennifer M [editor.].
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xii, 306p.ISBN: 9781107042025 (hardback).Subject(s): Peace-building -- Europe | Humanitarian assistance -- Europe | Intervention (International law)DDC classification: 341.584| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-293) and index.
Introduction : the enduring relevance of classical thinkers / Stefano Recchia and Jennifer Welsh -- Intervention in European history, c. 1520-1850 / David Trim -- War in the face of doubt : early modern classics and the preventive use of force / Ariel Colonomos -- Vitoria : the law of war, saving the innocent, and the image of God / William Bain -- Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf on humanitarian intervention / Richard Tuck -- John Locke on intervention, uncertainty, and insurgency / Samuel Moyn -- Intervention and sovereign equality : legacies of Vattel / Jennifer Pitts -- David Hume and Adam Smith on international ethics and humanitarian intervention / Edwin Van de Haar -- Sovereignty, morality and history : the problematic legitimization of force in Rousseau, Kant and Hegel / Pierre Hassner -- Revisiting Kant and intervention / Andrew Hurrell -- Edmund Burke and intervention : empire and neighborhood / Jennifer Welsh -- The origins of liberal Wilsonianism : Giuseppe Mazzini on regime change and humanitarian intervention / Stefano Recchia -- J.S. Mill on non-intervention and intervention / Michael Doyle.
Classical arguments about the legitimate use of force have crucially shaped society. But what lessons can we learn from classical European philosophers and jurists when thinking about the ethics and politics of military intervention today? This book explores the ways in which classical ideas can be applied to contemporary problems.
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