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The Burden of Autonomy: Non-combatant Immunity and Humanitarian Intervention

by William Cornwell

Ethical Perspectives 12.3 (September 2005): 341-355

Michael Walzer argues that except in cases involving genocide or mass slaughter, humanitarian intervention is... more Michael Walzer argues that except in cases involving genocide or mass slaughter, humanitarian intervention is unjustified because "citizens get the government they deserve, or, at least, the government for which they are 'fit.'" Yet, if people are autonomous and deserve the government that rules over them, then it would seem that they are responsible for the government's actions, including their nations' wars of aggression. That line of thought undermines the doctrine of non-combatant immunity, which is perhaps the most important of Walzer's jus in bello principles. In this way, the concept of self-determination frustrates Walzer's attempts to keep jus ad bellum and jus in bello considerations separate.

THE POST-9/11 STATE OF EMERGENCY: REALITY VERSUS RHETORIC

by Edmund Byrne

Leave No Oil Reserves Behind, Including Iraq's: The Geopolitics of American Imperialism

by Edmund Byrne

The US Military-Industrial Complex is Circumstantially Unethical

by Edmund Byrne

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Assessing Arms Makers' Corporate Social Responsibility

by Edmund Byrne

Violence and Democracy

by Edmund Byrne