Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention Ethical Demand and Political Reality

C. A. J. Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University. His books include the influential Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992) and the widely cited Morality and Political Violence (2008). In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, subsequently published as Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics (2008).

Dr. Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The New Pacifism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Dobos was a Visiting Scholar with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and is a Senior Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale. He is currently Assistant Regional Director of the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific Division.

Dr Sanyal's primary interests are in political economy and Marxist philosophy. He has published in forums such as Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics, Philosophy Compass, and Social Scientist. He co-edited The Ethics of Human Enhancement (OUP, 2016).

Morality, Reality and Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction to the Debate, C. A. J. Coady
1. Complicating the Moral Case of Responsibility to Protect: Kosovo and Libya, Stephen Zunes
2. Why Sovereignty Matters Despite Injustice: the Ethics of Intervention, Richard W. Miller
3. Women and Humanitarian Intervention, Janna Thompson
4. Humanitarian Intervention and Non-Ideal Theory, Ramon Das
5. The Leeriness Objection to the Responsibility to Protect, Marco Meyer
6. On the Uses and "Abuses" of R2P, Ned Dobos
7. Scrutinizing Intentions, Chrisantha Hermanson
8. "Words lying on the table"? Norm Contestation and the Diminution of the Responsibility to Protect, Aidan Hehir
9. Responsibility to Protect, Polarity and Society: R2P's Political Realities in the International Order, Robert W. Murray and Tom Keating
10. Closing the R2P Chapter; Opening a Dissident Current within Philosophy of War, Sagar Sanyal