Can the doctrine of just military intervention survive Iraq

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12892874
AutoresDaryl Glaser (0009-0000-0114-6368, University of the Witwatersrand, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume6
Fascículo3
Páginas287-304
Data de publicação2010-12-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Global Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1744-9626 • E-ISSN: 1744-9634
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449626.2010.524801
OpenAlexW2127059009
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

The disastrous consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 appear to discredit just war theories that justify military intervention in sovereign states in the name of human rights. It is possible, however, to identify factors that distinguish a defensible military intervention from the kind pursued in Iraq, and to incorporate these into a doctrine of humanitarian military intervention that would not have permitted the Iraq invasion. This improved doctrine stands in contrast to the militant interventionist doctrine that endorsed the invasion – a variant referred to here as the doctrine of just anti-totalitarian war (JAW). In order to critique the JAW doctrine and distinguish it from the improved doctrine, I examine critically the JAW-supporters' attempt to make sense of what went wrong in Iraq, and propose an alternative diagnosis. It is this alternative diagnosis that grounds a defense of moderate versions of the doctrine of just military intervention, which I seek in turn to render ‘Iraq-proof’. My Iraq-proof refinement is expressed in a list of injunctions. These require, among other things, critical interrogation of the moral standing of intervening powers and greater attention to the legitimate grievances of adversaries in regions targeted for intervention. They would also permit military intervention only in moral emergencies, and usually only to establish safe havens and protect relief supplies

Doctrine · Humanitarian intervention · International law · International relations · Intervention (counseling · Interventionism (politics · Just war theory · Militant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Spanish Civil War · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Medicine · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification