♦Number of Credits/Academic Year of Students to Take This Course/Semester
Number of Credits 2
Academic Year of Students to Take This Course Year 1 or above
Semester Autumn


♦Description of This Course/Theme
This course will deal with the ethics and politics of recent foreign interventions. Not very long ago the international community began to think of and to legitimize such interventions under the heading of "humanitarian military interventions". However, since September 11, 2001 "war on terrorism" has become the single most important reason used to justify military interventions violating another country's sovereignty. On the one hand I wish to enquire into the different ethical reasons that have been advance to justify both humanitarian interventions and more recent operations which have been conceived either as some kind of large scale international police interventions or as pre-emptive wars. On the other hand I want to relate these ethical justifications to politics, both in terms of real world politics and in terms of political justifications. Finally I want to see what these interventions suggests as to the way the international community thinks concerning how we can and should today "live together".


♦Information concerning Students Who Take This Course
Knowledge of English.

♦Evaluation Method/Grading Criteria
（Evaluation method/grading criteria can be changed. You are asked to confirm by watching a notice which will be posted during the time of regular examination.）
The method of evaluation will be continuous assessment.


♦Textbooks
D.K.Chatterjee & D.E. Scheids (Eds.) ETHICS AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION Cambridge University Press, 2003.


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♦Reference Books
A.J. Coates THE ETHICS OF WAR New York, St-Martin's Press, 1997
P. Dumouchel "Le terrorisme a l'age imperial" in ESPRIT aout/septembre, 2002
S. Hofmann THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF FOREIGN INTERVENTIONS Notre Dame University Press, 1996
M. Ignatief VIRTUAL WAR: KOSOVO AND BEYOND New York, Henry Holt, 2000
J.T. Johnson JUST WAR TRADITION AND THE RESTRAINT OF WAR Princeton University Press, 1981
G. R. Lucas PERSPECTIVES ON HUMANITARIAN MILITARY INTERVENTIONS Berkely, University of California Polity Press, 1999
L. Melvern A PEOPLE BETRAYED: THE ROLE OF THE WEST IN RWANDA'S GENOCIDE London: Zed Books, 2000
J. Moore (Ed.) HARD CHOICES: MORAL DILEMMAS IN HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION Rowman & Littlefield, 1998
J. Rawls THE LAW OF PEOPLES Harvard University Press, 1999
M. Walzer JUST AND UNJUST WARS New York, Basic Books, 1992


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