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Article: Expanding military intervention: promise or peril?(Rescue: The Paradoxes of Virtue)(Transcript)
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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A conference dedicated to examining the theme "Rescue" bears a burden of proof. The purpose and logic of this conference challenges and confronts a political-moral principle of nonintervention which has been in operation for centuries. There are urgent, indeed compelling, reasons for mounting a challenge to the prevailing ethic, but there are also lessons drawn from history and politics which should make any challenger cautious. Indeed, to challenge this principle is to confront an entire order of politics, a way of conceiving and managing the "logic of anarchy" which remains at the core of world politics.
I support the challenge to both the principle and the ...