Chapter 4 (Michael J. Smith on Intervention)

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America and the World: Ethical Dimensions to Power, Carnegie Council/Eckerd College Lecture (March 8, 2005)

"Growing Up With Just and Unjust Wars," Ethics & International Affairs 11 (1997)

"Review Essay: American Realism and the New Global Realities," Ethics & International Affairs 6 (1992)

"Ethics and Intervention," Ethics & International Affairs 3 (1989)

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(see below, Chapters 5, 6, and 7)


Chapter 5 (Terry Nardin on the Moral Basis for Intervention)

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Debating Fernando Tesón, "Ending Tyranny in Iraq," Ethics & International Affairs 19, no. 2 (2005). Nardin responds in "Humanitarian Imperialism" and Tesón replies with "Of Tyrants and Empires."

"Moral Renewal: The Lessons of Eastern Europe," Ethics & International Affairs 5 (1991)

(with Kathleen Pritchard) "Ethics and Intervention: The U.S. in Grenada," Carnegie Council Case Study (1983)

On this topic

Patrick Macklem, "Humanitarian Intervention and the Distribution of Sovereignty in International Law," Ethics & International Affairs 22, no. 4 (2008)

Michael Wesley, "Toward a Realist Ethics of Intervention," Ethics & International Affairs 19, no. 2 (2005)

"Special Section: The Meaning of Kosovo," Ethics & International Affairs 14 (2000). Includes articles by Alberto Coll, Tony Smith, Richard Caplan, Carl Cavanagh Hodge, and Martin Cook.

Julie Mertus, "Review Essay: Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo," Ethics & International Affairs 15, no. 1 (2001)

Thomas G. Weiss, "Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action," Ethics & International Affairs 12 (1999). Also see responses from Cornelio Sommaruga, Joelle Tanguy and Fiona Terry, and David Rieff.

Oliver Ramsbotham, "Islam, Christianity, and Forcible Humanitarian Intervention," Ethics & International Affairs 12 (1998)

Sohail Hashmi, "Is There an Islamic Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention?" Ethics & International Affairs 7 (1993)

J. Bryan Hehir, "Intervention: From Theories to Cases," Ethics & International Affairs 9 (1995)

Nancy Sherman, "Empathy, Respect, and Humanitarian Intervention," Ethics & International Affairs 12 (1998)

Anthony F. Lang, Jr., ed. Just Intervention, (New York/Washington DC: Carnegie Council/Georgetown University Press, 2003). Contains many of the essays listed here, plus additional contributions from Nicholas Onuf, Simon Chesterman, Michael Barnett, Nicholas Wheeler, and others.


Chapter 6 (Alex J. Bellamy on Darfur and the Responsibility to Protect)

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"Whither the Responsibility to Protect? Humanitarian Intervention and the 2005 World Summit," Ethics & International Affairs 20, no. 2 (2006)

Ethics & International Affairs Interview: Alex Bellamy on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), Carnegie Council (February 16, 2009)

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Jarat Chopra and Thomas G. Weiss, "Sovereignty Is No Longer Sacrosanct: Codifying Humanitarian Intervention," Ethics & International Affairs 6 (1992)

Michael Barnett, "The United Nations and Global Security: The Norm is Mightier than the Sword," Ethics & International Affairs 9 (1995)

Joelle Tanguy, "Redefining Sovereignty and Intervention," Ethics & International Affairs 17, no. 1 (2003). A review essay on the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect.

"Special Section: The Politics of Rescue: Yugoslavia’s Wars and the Humanitarian Impulse," Ethics & International Affairs 11 (1997). With a lead essay by Amir Pasic and Thomas Weiss and responses from Andrew Natsios, Morton Winston, Alain Destexhe, and David Mapel.

Kristen Renwick Monroe, "Review Essay: The Psychology of Genocide," Ethics & International Affairs 9 (1995)

Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (transcript), Carnegie Council Public Affairs (April 11, 2002).

Anthony F. Lang, Jr., "Review Essay: Global Governance and Genocide in Rwanda," Ethics & International Affairs 16, no. 1 (2002)

Ethics on Film: Hotel Rwanda. Contains an overview of the 2004 film and the ethical questions it raises, followed by a list of related resources and outside links.

Romeo Dallaire, "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda," Carnegie Council Public Affairs (January 29, 2003). Go to the transcript and audio.

Romeo Dallaire, Bearing Witness to Genocide: Rwanda, Darfur, and the Implications for Future Peacekeeping Operations (transcript), Carnegie Council Public Affairs (February 11, 2005).

Eric Reeves, "A Central African Affair: Chad’s Insurgency Highlights Ongoing Genocide in Darfur," Carnegie Ethics Online (February 7, 2008)


Chapter 7 (Robyn Eckersley on Ecological Intervention)

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Ethics & International Affairs Interview: Simon Dalby on Environmental Security, Carnegie Council (February 16, 2009)

Matthew Humphrey, "On Not Being Green about Ecological Intervention," Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 3 (Online Symposium; 2007)

Simon Dalby, "Ecological Intervention and Anthropocene Ethics," Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 3 (Online Symposium; 2007)

Clare Palmer, "Ecological Intervention in Defense of Species," Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 3 (Online Symposium; 2007)

Mark Woods, "Some Worries about Ecological Intervention and Ecological Defense," Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 3 (Online Symposium; 2007)