Michael Walzer’s Humanitarian Intervention Theory Applied to Multisided Conflicts
A Discussion of Intervention and Self-Determination in the Syrian Civil War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13026799 |
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| Authors | Miguel Paradela-López (0000-0003-1849-5526, Antioquia Institute of Technology), Alexandra Jima-González (0000-0002-9719-3069, Universidad Yachay Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 41-41 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci9040041 |
| OpenAlex | W3014903688 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Humanitarian interventions have often been employed to promote the intervener’s political and economic interests. Given the issues around intervention’s morality, this article explores Michael Walzer’s humanitarian intervention theory in order to unravel the practical difficulties of legitimating humanitarian interventions in multisided conflicts. After exploring Walzer’s arguments as they relate to unilateral and multilateral interventions, this article explains why, according to the self-determination principle, intervening countries must share the victim’s cause. Later, the article uses the Syrian Civil War to exemplify the conundrum of crafting a legitimate humanitarian intervention in multisided conflicts where the victims are internally divided and have opposing political, economic, and/or religious views. This case study evidences how, in such contexts, humanitarian interventions simultaneously protect the population and promote the group that best represents the intervening state’s interests, thus turning internal conflicts into foreign proxy wars. Finally, the article argues that, despite Walzer’s proposal for a consistent theory of unilateral and multilateral humanitarian interventions, unilateral interventions should be replaced in multisided conflicts by multilateral interventions able to halt atrocities and provide a stable solution for internal conflicts
Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian intervention · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
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Islamism and the Left
To Assist or Not to Assist? Assessing the Potential Moral Costs of Humanitarian Intervention in Nature
The Internationalization of Isis
Self-help Test on Michael Walzer’s military intervention theory
Contesting the Responsibility to Protect
Realizing the Responsibility to Protect
Responsibility to protect, Nato and the problem of who should intervene
From Right to Intervene to Duty to Protect
Humanitarian imperialism
When Duty Calls
The Responsibility to Protect
Just and Unjust Wars
Just & Unjust Targeted Killing & Drone Warfare
Humanitarian Imperialism
Spheres of Justice
Jus Post Bellum
Help or hindrance? The role of humanitarian military interventions in human security NGO operations
Bounded morality
Michael Walzer on Resorting to Force
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