The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300230604)

The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill's famous 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" as his starting point, international relations scholar Michael W. Doyle addresses the thorny issue of when a state's sovereignty should be respected and when it should be overridden or disregarded by other states in the name of humanitarian protection, national self-determination, or national security. In this time of complex social and political interplay and increasingly sophisticated and deadly weaponry, Doyle reinvigorates Mill's principles for a new era while assessing the new United Nations doctrine of responsibility to protect.

In the twenty-first century, intervention can take many forms: military and economic, unilateral and multilateral. Doyle's thought-provoking argument examines essential moral and legal questions underlying significant American foreign policy dilemmas of recent years, including Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Author: Michael W. Doyle
ISBN-10: 0300230605
ISBN-13: 9780300230604
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2017
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d