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108 J OURNAL OF M ORAL P HILOSOPHY 3.1 (2006) Accordingly, another theme within the collection is the set of circumstances under which human rights violations legitimate a breach of the sovereignty of a nation state. Several contributors examine the myriad of considerations that enter into such moral reasoning, especially those principles deriving from just war theory. Lucas adapts principles of just war to formulate principles of just intervention. But whereas just war principles give a legalistic structure to war, Lucas is concerned to maintain the illegality of the situation in which humanitarian intervention arises. Humanitarian intervention is required precisely in response to criminal actions on the part of a state, so the principles of just intervention posited by Lucas are not meant to mask this illegality. In this sense, Lucas claims that principles of just intervention are analogous to rules of domestic law enforcement. The illegality of the situation in which humanitarian intervention is called for is important, again, in order to publicly justify the violation of sovereignty. This collection compiles an interesting series of perspectives on a pressing issue in the contemporary world. The question of intervention in the internal affairs of an unjust state brings
Journal of Moral Philosophy – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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