Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers?

by Bas Van Der Vossen and Fernando R. Tesón

Book Overview

When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma. Two courses of action emerge: either to retaliate against an abusive government on behalf of its victims, or to remain spectators. Either course offers its own perils: the former, lost lives and resources without certainty of restoring peace or preventing worse problems from proliferating; the latter, cold spectatorship that leaves a country at the mercy of corrupt rulers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190202912
• ISBN13: 9780190202910
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"