Ethics and Foreign Intervention

This collection of original essays on the ethical and legal implications of humanitarian military intervention presents a variety of normative perspectives. It considers topics such as the just-war theory and its limits secession and international law and new approaches toward the moral adequacy of intervention. Written by well-known contemporary philosophers the essays form a challenging and timely volume that will interest political philosophers and theorists readers in law and international relations and anyone concerned with the moral dimensions of international affairs.