POL SCI 124C Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Humanitarian Intervention, Mission Creep, Wound Healing
13 Mar 2018
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Libya intervention seems to meet this test (c) just cause only for intervention, not regime change (i) Other relevant criteria met: limited scope of jib (no fly zone and protection of civilian), legitimate authority (un sc), last resort - no other alternatives, support from individuals under threat and international community, reasonable hope of success. But three problems that raise issues for the ethics of hi in general. As the intervention progressed, the primary objective seemed to become regime change. Again, no sufficient cause for regime change! Regime change as a primary object fails the requirements of the permissibility of an intervention/ jus in bello. Because large number of innocent casualties, other nonmilitary options to force out qaddafi, small likelihood of success, huge transitions costs between regimes, new regime only slightly better in hr records. Principles of jib determined partly by the jab permissibility of the war.
