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Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. All are examples where humanitarian intervention has been called into action. This timely and important new volume explores the legal and moral issues which emerge when a state uses military force in order to protect innocent people from violence perpetrated or permitted by the government of that state. Humanitarian intervention can be seen as a moral duty to protect but it is also subject to misuse as a front for imperialism without regard to international law. In Humanitarian Intervention , the contributors explore the many questions surrounding the issue

Moral universalism, or the idea that some system of ethics applies to all people regardless of race, color, nationality, religion, or culture, must have a plurality over which to range - a plurality of diverse persons, nations, jurisdictions, or localities over which morality asserts a universal authority. The contributors to Moral Universalism and Pluralism , the latest volume in the NOMOS series, investigate the idea that, far from denying the existence of such pluralities, moral universalism presupposes it. At the same time, the search for universally valid principles of morality is deeply

Principles -- Traditional just war theory and humanitarian intervention / Joseph Boyle -- Humanitarian intervention : a conflict of traditions / Anthony Coates -- A duty to protect / Kok-Chor Tan -- Humanitarian intervention as a perfect duty: a Kantian argument / Carla Bagnoli -- Institutions -- Legality and legitimacy in humanitarian intervention / Thomas Franck -- Moralizing humanitarian intervention : why jurying fails and how law can help / Thomas Pogge -- Whose principles? whose institutions? legitimacy problems of humanitarian intervention / Catherine Lu -- Jurying humanitarian intervention and the ethical principle of open-minded consultation -- Brian D. Lepard -- The jury, the law, and the primacy of politics / Melissa S. Williams -- From state sovereignty to human security (via institutions?) / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- The unavoidability of morality : a commentary on Mehta / Kok-Chor Tan.

Invisible citizens : political exclusion and domination in Arendt and Ellison / Danielle Allen -- Tragic visions, mundane realities : a comment on Danielle Allen's "Invisible Citizens" / Clifford Orwin -- The domination complaint / Philip Pettit -- Pettit and modern Republican political thought / Miguel Vatter -- Against Monism : pluralist critical comments on Danielle Allen and Philip Pettit / Veit Bader -- Reply to Bader and Orwin / Danielle Allen -- In reply to Bader and Vatter / Philip Pettit -- Exclusion and assimilation : two forms of domination in relation to freedom / James Tully -- Liberal foundationalism and agonistic democracy / Michael Blake -- Democracy and legitimacy : a response to James Tully's "Exclusion and Assimilation" / Leif Wenar -- A reply to Michael Blake and Leif Wenar / James Tully -- Inscribing the face : shame, stigma, and punishment / Martha Nussbaum -- The duration of shame "Time Served" or "Lifetime"? / Sanford Levinson -- Genocide's sexuality / Catharine A. MacKinnon

Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. All are examples where humanitarian intervention has been called into action. This timely and important new volume explores the legal and moral issues which emerge when a state uses military force in order to protect innocent people from violence perpetrated or permitted by the government of that state. Humanitarian intervention can be seen as a moral duty to protect but it is also subject to misuse as a front for imperialism without regard to international law.In Humanitarian Intervention, the contributors explore the many questions surrounding the issue. Is humanitarian intervention permitted by international law? If not, is it nevertheless morally permissible or morally required? Realistically, might not the main consequence of the humanitarian intervention principle be that powerful states will coerce weak ones for purposes of their own? The current debate is updated by two innovations in particular, the first being the shift of emphasis from the permissibility of intervening to the responsibility to intervene, and the second an emerging conviction that the response to humanitarian crises needs to be collective, coordinated, and preemptive. The authors shed light on the timely debate of when and how to intervene and when, if ever, not to.Contributors: Carla Bagnoli, Joseph Boyle, Anthony Coates, Thomas Franck, Brian D. Lepard, Catherine Lu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Terry Nardin, Thomas Pogge, Melissa S. Williams, and Kok-Chor Tan

Toleration has a rich tradition in Western political philosophy. It is, after all, one of the defining topics of political philosophy-historically pivotal in the development of modern liberalism, prominent in the writings of such canonical figures as John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and central to our understanding of the idea of a society in which individuals have the right to live their own lives by their own values, left alone by the state so long as they respect the similar interests of others. Toleration and Its Limits, the latest addition to the NOMOS series, explores the philosophical nuances of the concept of toleration and its scope in contemporary liberal democratic societies. Editors Melissa S. Williams and Jeremy Waldron carefully compiled essays that address the tradition's key historical figures; its role in the development and evolution of Western political theory; its relation to morality, liberalism, and identity; and its limits and dangers. Contributors: Lawrence A. Alexander, Kathryn Abrams, Wendy Brown, Ingrid Creppell, Noah Feldman, Rainer Forst, David Heyd, Glyn Morgan, Glen Newey, Michael A. Rosenthal, Andrew Sabl, Steven D. Smith, and Alex Tuckness

Moral universalism, or the idea that some system of ethics applies to all people regardless of race, color, nationality, religion, or culture, must have a plurality over which to range - a plurality of diverse persons, nations, jurisdictions, or localities over which morality asserts a universal authority. The contributors to Moral Universalism and Pluralism, the latest volume in the NOMOS series, investigate the idea that, far from denying the existence of such pluralities, moral universalism presupposes it. At the same time, the search for universally valid principles of morality is deeply challenged by diversity. The fact of pluralism presses us to explore how universalist principles interact with ethical, political, and social particularisms. These important essays refuse the answer that particularisms should simply be made to conform to universal principles, as if morality were a mold into which the diverse matter of human society and culture could be pressed. Rather, the authors bring philosophical, legal and political perspectives to bear on the core questions: Which forms of pluralism are conceptually compatible with moral universalism, and which ones can be accommodated in a politically stable way? Can pluralism generate innovations in understandings of moral duty? How is convergence on the validity of legal and moral authority possible in circumstances of pluralism? As the contributors to the book demonstrate in a wide variety of ways, these normative, conceptual, and political questions deeply intertwine.Contributors: Kenneth Baynes, William A. Galston, Barbara Herman, F. M. Kamm, Benedict Kingsbury, Frank I. Michelman, William E. Scheuerman, Gopal Sreenivasan, Daniel Weinstock, and Robin West