John Stuart Mill on the Suez Canal and the limits of self-defence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Beaumont (0000-0002-0778-8027, Shenzhen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 269-294 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-9719 • E-ISSN: 1752-9727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1752971923000222 |
| OpenAlex | W4396960827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Michael Walzer's use of John Stuart Mill's A Few Words on Non-Intervention (1859) helped to inaugurate it as a canonical text of international theory. However, Walzer's use of the text was highly selective because he viewed the first half as a historically parochial discussion of British foreign policy, and his interest in the second was restricted to the passages in which Mill proposes principles of international morality to govern foreign military interventions to protect third parties. As a result, theorists tend to see those canonized passages as if through a glass darkly. Attention to the detail and context of Mill's first-half critique of Lord Palmerston's opposition to the Suez Canal project reveals that his discussion of purely protective intervention is embedded in a broader exploration of the limits of self-defence, including the moral permissibility of preventive military force and the use of protective interventions for defensive purposes. Moreover, reading the text holistically facilitates a refutation of some objections directed at it by Michael Doyle to the effect that Mill's conception of self-defence incorporates elements of aggression which makes it extremely dangerous when adapted for application to the contemporary world
Archaeology · Business · International trade · Mill · Political science · Suez canal · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Political Theory and Influence · War, Ethics, and Justification
Nonintervention and International Order
Liberalism, Diversity and Domination
History of the Suez Canal Company, 1858-2008
Catholic Conspiracy in Early Elizabethan Foreign Policy
John Stuart Mill and the practice of colonial rule in India
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire
The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm
John Stuart Mill on Intervention and Non-intervention
Kymlicka’s Alignment of Mill and Engels
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |