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UNAUTHORIZED HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2004

Mark S. Stein
Mark S. Stein
Affiliation:
Government, Dartmouth College
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Extract

In this essay, I offer a utilitarian perspective on humanitarian intervention. There is no generally accepted precise definition of the term ‘humanitarian intervention’. I will provisionally, and roughly, define humanitarian intervention as the use of force by a state, beyond its own borders, that has as a purpose or an effect the protection of the human rights of noncitizens or the reduction of the suffering of noncitizens.

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Research Article
Information
Social Philosophy and Policy , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 14 - 38
Copyright
© 2004 Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation

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Footnotes

I acknowledge with thanks the comments of James Bernard Murphy, who is more distrustful of unauthorized humanitarian intervention than I am. For illuminating discussions of humanitarian intervention, I thank the contributors to the American Society of International Law Listserve, including Anthony D'Amato, Jason Beckett, Andre de Hoogh, Jorg Kammerhofer, Francisco Martin, Iheke Ndukwe, Jordan Paust, and Alfred Rubin.