Journal article

Publication year: 2009

Pages: 93-114

Journal: German Law Journal

Volume number: 10

Issue number: 1

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2071832200000948

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Abstract: 

We rarely witness wars between states anymore but this does not mean that there are fewer conflicts or less injustice worldwide. The contrary is true. More people than ever have become a victim of civil wars, other sub-state armed conflicts and genocide during recent years. The international community disagrees about how to react to gross human rights violations that occur in the course of these “new wars”: whereas some think this is a genuine task for the United Nations, others stress the argument of unrestrained national sovereignty as essential condition for international peace. Despite unceasing contestation, foreign interventions are nevertheless increasingly seen as an appropriate response to this kind of armed domestic conflicts – at least under certain conditions. The latest testimony in this direction is the emergence of an intense international debate over the “responsibility to protect”, which seeks to justify military invention in cases of a severe violation of individual negative rights of freedom.

Harvard Citation style: Kreide, R. (2009) Preventing Military Humanitarian Intervention? John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on a Just Global Order, German Law Journal : review of developments in German and European jurisprudence, 10(1), pp. 93-114. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2071832200000948

APA Citation style: Kreide, R. (2009). Preventing Military Humanitarian Intervention? John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on a Just Global Order. German Law Journal : review of developments in German and European jurisprudence. 10(1), 93-114. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2071832200000948