โ Scribed by Georg Meggle (editor)
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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.ย 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.ย ย (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?ย (II) At exactly what point are humanitarian intervention-wars morally justifiable? Are they justifiable even if they are wars of aggression breaching international law?ย And finally:ย (III) Was the war which was presented to us as the paradigmatic example of a humanitarian-intervention-war, that is: the war in Kosovo in the spring of 1999 (with over 37,000 bombing missions), really justifiable as a humanitarian intervention? Many of us wanted to believe so at the time. Does our ex ante judgement hold today in an ex post reflection? And which lessons for the future should we learn from the success or failure of this humanitarian war?ย ย These are the questions proposed in this book; therefore, it is concerned with problems of semantics (part I), problems of moral assessment (part II) and with the moral, legal and political conclusions we draw from our experiences with the war in Kosovo, our primary example of a humanitarian intervention (part III).ย ย International experts in the areas of philosophy, international law, sociology and peace studies debated these questions vigorously for several days. This is the resulting volume.
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CONTENTS
Preface
ABSTRACTS
I Basic Issues
MICHAEL WALZER The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention
SEUMAS MILLER Collective Responsibility and Humanitarian Armed Intervention
OLAF L. MรLLER Reconstructing Pacifism. Different Ways of Looking at Reality
UWE CZANIERA How Far Shall We Go Humanitarian Interventions?
MARTIN FRANK The Dilemmatic Structure of Humanitarian Interventions
WALTER PFANNKUCHE Humanitarian Interventions and Other Duties to Humanitarian Aid1
RALF STOECKER Help, Intervention and Involvement
ALEKSANDAR PAVKOVIฤ
Saving Lives in Nationalist Conflicts:
A Few Moral Hazards1
MIROSLAV PROKOPIJEVIC Humanitarian Intervention
II International Ethics and Law
RรDIGER BITTNER Humanitarian Interventions are Wrong
THOMAS MERTENS Humanitarian Intervention: Legal and Moral Arguments
RUDOLF SCHรSSLER Principles of non-UN Humanitarian Intervention
REINER STEINWEG Early non-Military External Interventions. A Plea for a United Nations Intervention Council (UNIC)
VรRONIQUE ZANETTI Humanitarian Intervention: An Individual Right or a State Right?
III Kosova / Kosovo The Moral Combat
ULRICH STEINVORTH* On the Legitimacy of NATOโs Kosovo Intervention
GEORG MEGGLE NATO-Morality and the Kosovo-War An Ethical Commentary โ ex post
HAJO SCHMIDT โHumanitarian Interventionโ: Media, Ethics and Law in the Kosovo War
JOHAN GALTUNG Bombing Yugoslavia: Several Readings Text, Supertext, Subtext, Deep Text, Context โ and a Pretext (with a Posttext)
DIETER S. LUTZ The Example of Kosovo: Didactics against Humanitarian Interventionism
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