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Article: Of tyrants and empires: reply to Terry Nardin.
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- Ethics & International Affairs
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Terry Nardin questions my characterization of the intervention in Iraq as humanitarian in a number of ways. I'll address them in turn.
THE NARROW HUMANITARIAN RATIONALE
I characterize humanitarian intervention as the use of force to end severe tyranny. Nardin accuses me of revising the doctrine of humanitarian intervention because the doctrine is carefully circumscribed as "thwarting specific crimes against humanity" (1) and does not include replacing tyrannical regimes. As a preliminary matter, this dispute seems merely terminological. If Nardin wants to call "humanitarian intervention" only military action to thwart specific crimes against humanity, ...