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Private Military Companies, Just War, and Humanitarian Intervention
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Heinze, Eric A. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | The practice of humanitarian military intervention has been a component of the just war tradition for centuries, though it has allegedly acquired increased legitimacy since the end of the cold war. Within the past decade or so, NATO's campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 over the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians has spurred perhaps the most systematic and sustained scholarly discussion of this general topic. Until recently, however, scholarly treatments of this morally, legally, and politically controversial topic have mainly dealt with the conditions under which humanitarian intervention would be morally desirable, as well as when, if ever, it would be permissible under international law2 An unspoken assumption of much of this literature is that some actor would be willing and able to undertake this operationally and politically demanding task when and where it was needed.3 However, even during the 1990s—the supposed heyday of the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention—numerous cases of gross human rights violations were allowed to occur with little meaningful response by the international community. Many of these cases have been considered by scholars to constitute moral, and even legal, grounds for armed intervention to stop such suffering. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is perhaps the most dramatic example of the consequences of inaction in the face of such blatant massacre. |
| Starting Page | 123 |
| Ending Page | 150 |
| Page Count | 28 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230101791_6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1057/9780230101791_6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101791_6 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
