Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions

"Humanitarian intervention" became the justification for approximately 37,000 Nato air raids against Serbia/Yugoslavia in 1999. Because it was presented in those terms, rather than the war it actually was, the operation received broad public blessing in most Nato countries. The only drawback was the lack of a mandate from the United Nations. Yet this was actually relished by the strongest proponents of intervention, who interpreted Nato's action as a victory for morality and human rights over so-called international law. Others regard this, Nato's first war, as a relapse into the barbarism which the so-called civilized states have tried to avoid since the peace of Westphalia, albeit not completely successfully, and certainly not in the twentieth century. The book addresses the moral questions resulting from this war and its justifications.Meggle, Georg is the author of 'Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions', published 2005 under ISBN 9783937202587 and ISBN 3937202587.