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Toward a Realist Ethics of Intervention [Excerpt]
Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 19.2 (Summer 2005)
Michael Wesley
July 13, 2005
Since the September 11 attacks, a new security agenda has swept aside much of
the old sensitivity and apathy about intervening in “failing” states. The war on
terror has redefined “governance” from concentrating on issues of economic
viability and popular rights to a focus on the capacity of states to generate
sufficient “order” to deter or capture the agents of the new transnational
security threats: terrorists, smugglers, money launderers, the carriers of
zoonotic disease. As part of this process, the governance standards of other
states became part of Western states’ own security agendas, generating new,
self-interested incentives for aid and intervention. In this article, I explore
the possibilities for developing a realist-informed normative framework for
humanitarian intervention in the context of the post–September 11 international
concern with transnational threats.
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