Who should pay for humanitarian intervention

Bibliographic Data

ID6259784
AuthorsFredrik D Hjorthen (0000-0002-8774-6889, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume19
Issue3
Pages334-353
Publication date2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1474885117697468
OpenAlexW2595402752
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited52

While some suggestions have been made as to how the duty to undertake humanitarian intervention should be assigned to specific states, the question of how to assign the duty to carry the economic and material costs remains underexplored. In this paper, I argue that the most plausible answer to this question is found in a pluralist approach. First, we should look to the Contribution to Problem Principle, according to which the costs are shared based on the historical responsibility of states for the occurrence of atrocities. For the many cases where this principle does not apply or needs to be supplemented, I suggest a novel alternative in the Entitlement-adjusted Ability Principle, according to which costs should be distributed based on states' levels of resources that have been tainted by historical rights violations

Duty · Economics · Entitlement (fair division · Human rights · Humanitarian intervention · Intervention (counseling · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification