Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? (Debating Ethics)

Tesón, Fernando R.; Van Der Vossen, Bas

ISBN 10: 0190202912 / ISBN 13: 9780190202910

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

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In English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? (Debating Ethics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190202912
• ISBN 13: 9780190202910
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 448 grams

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Synopsis

Philosophers Fernando Tesón and Bas van der Vossen offer contrasting views of humanitarian intervention: as a war aimed at ending tyranny, or as unjustifiable violence. Fernando Tesón argues that humanitarian interventions are sometimes permissible; Bas van der Vossen argues that as a rule they are not. The authors use the tools of modern analytic philosophy, in particular just war theory, to substantiate their claims.

About the Author

Fernando R. Tesón is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. He is the author, inter alia, of Justice at a Distance: Extending Freedom Globally (Cambridge University Press, 2015) [with Loren Lomasky] and Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality , 3rd ed. (Transnational Publishers 2005), and dozens of articles in specialized journals.

Bas van der Vossen is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Smith Institute of Political Economy and Philosophy and the Philosophy Department at Chapman University. His research focuses on questions in political philosophy, and he is an Associate Editor of the journal Social Philosophy and Policy.