{"product_id":"debating-humanitarian-intervention-should-we-try-to-save-strangers-paperback","title":"Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFernando R. Tes?n\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBas Van Der Vossen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma. Two courses of action emerge: either to retaliate against an abusive government on behalf of its victims, or to remain spectators. Either course offers its own perils: the former, lost lives and resources without certainty of restoring peace or preventing worse problems from proliferating; the latter, cold spectatorship that leaves a country at the mercy of corrupt rulers or to revolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilosophers Fernando Teson and Bas van der Vossen offer contrasting views of humanitarian intervention, defining it as either war aimed at ending tyranny, or as violence. The authors employ the tools of impartial modern analytic philosophy, particularly just war theory, to substantiate their claims. According to Teson, a humanitarian intervention has the same just cause as a justified revolution: ending tyranny. He analyzes the different kinds of just cause and whether or not an intervener may pursue other justified causes. For Teson, the permissibility of humanitarian intervention is almost exclusively determined by the rules of proportionality. Bas van der Vossen, by contrast, holds that military intervention is morally impermissible in almost all cases. Justified interventions, Van der Vossen argues, must have high \u003cem\u003eex ante \u003c\/em\u003echance of success. Analyzing the history and prospects of intervention shows that they almost never do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTeson and van der Vossen refer to concrete cases, and weigh the consequences of continued or future intervention in Syria, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq, Lybia and Egypt. By placing two philosophers in dialogue, \u003cem\u003eDebating Humanitarian Intervention\u003c\/em\u003e is not constrained by a single, unifying solution to the exclusion of all others. Rather, it considers many conceivable actions as judged by analytic philosophy, leaving the reader equipped to make her own, informed judgments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFernando R. Tesón \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. He is the author, \u003cem\u003einter alia\u003c\/em\u003e, of \u003cem\u003eJustice at a Distance: Extending Freedom Globally \u003c\/em\u003e(Cambridge University Press, 2015) [with Loren Lomasky] and \u003cem\u003eHumanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality\u003c\/em\u003e, 3rd ed. (Transnational Publishers 2005), and dozens of articles in specialized journals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBas van der Vossen\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eSocial Philosophy and Policy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736338403391,"sku":"9780190202910","price":55.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2e9e80de4b51f06db6a70b12aa711f07.webp?v=1765146424","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/debating-humanitarian-intervention-should-we-try-to-save-strangers-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}