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Is There a Duty to Intervene? Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
Author(s) -
Pattison James
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12038
Subject(s) - duty , humanitarian intervention , responsibility to protect , intervention (counseling) , doctrine , context (archaeology) , political science , duty to protect , law , law and economics , human rights , psychology , sociology , history , archaeology , psychiatry
Abstract This article considers the duty to undertake humanitarian intervention. It first examines the arguments for the duty to intervene and questions the possibility of supererogatory humanitarian intervention. It then considers the leading objections to this duty which, it is argued, are largely unpersuasive. In the final section, the article considers the duty to intervene in the context of the responsibility to protect doctrine, which provides the framework within which debates about humanitarian intervention now in large part occur.