Special Roundtable on Libya and Humanitarian Intervention Published by Ethics & International Affairs, the Journal of the Carnegie Council
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Coinciding with the recent dramatic events in Tripoli and Libya as a whole, Ethics & International Affairs has published a special roundtable on the ethics and meaning of the NATO campaign in Libya, and its implications for future interventions.
The symposium, which is available online free of charge for a limited time, features contributions by Jennifer Welsh (Oxford), Simon Chesterman (New York University), Alex J. Bellamy (Queensland), James Pattison (Manchester), and Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York).
Contributors to the roundtable ask: What does Libya mean for the "Responsibility to Protect" (RtoP) doctrine? RtoP claims that governments have basic duties toward their own populations, the breach of which may trigger humanitarian intervention. Contributors also analyze how Libya will affect future potential interventions.
Additionally, contributors examine the overall ethics and meaning of the Libya intervention, taking into account the war's human and financial costs, the use of global governance mechanisms—particularly the UN Security Council's role in legitimizing the military campaign—and the legality of the NATO campaign according to international law.
Full-length articles from the symposium are available free for a limited time through the Carnegie Council at http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/journal/25_3/index.html, and through the journal's publisher, Cambridge University Press, at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=EIA&tab=firstview.
Additionally, roundtable participants may be available for comment on the Libya intervention or the ethics of intervention more generally.
The Carnegie Council's flagship publication, Ethics & International Affairs (www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org), is an interdisciplinary resource for scholars, students, journalists, and policy analysts concerned with the moral dimensions of global issues. The journal covers global justice, civil society, democratization, international law, intervention, sanctions, and related topics.
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (www.carnegiecouncil.org), established in 1914 by Andrew Carnegie, is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing understanding of the relationship between ethics and international affairs.
Cambridge University Press publishes over 270 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide spread of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of research available today.
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SOURCE Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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