The Responsibility to Protect from Terror

The use of military force abroad is a significant part of some states’ counter-terrorist efforts. Can these operations be ethically justified? This paper considers whether the underlying principles that philosophers have put forward to justify humanitarian interventions (which may underlie the international norm of the responsibility to protect (R2P)) can also give support for foreign counter-terrorist interventions of this sort. While it finds that the limits to international action that are imposed by the need to respect state sovereignty do not rule out counter-terrorist interventions, it urges caution in supporting an international norm permitting them. Because such a norm would be open to manipulation and abuse, it may be preferable to discourage appealing to it in order to justify military counter-terrorism

Action (physics · Counter terrorism · Humanitarian intervention · International law · Law and economics · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Terrorism · Use of force · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification

• The Responsibility to Protect

  Open Access•Adrian Gallagher, Blake Lawrinson et al.•Global Responsibility to Protect•2023

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